The Travel Companion is about roommates and friends Simon and Bruce. Bruce works for an airline, and Simon gets free flights as his designated travel companion. Simon uses this perk to travel the world, at least, that’s the idea, as he works on filming a documentary.
One night after a movie screening, Bruce meets Beatrice, who is also a filmmaker. They start dating, and Simon quickly becomes anxious that he’s going to lose his free-flight privileges. He brings it up with Bruce at every opportunity, and even with Beatrice. His fixation on it starts to put their friendship at risk.
Ironically, for a movie centered around free flights, we never actually see Simon leave New York, where the film takes place.
While I could empathize with Simon to some degree—he’s stuck in a dead-end job and struggling to figure out his path, I found his character pretty unlikable. Actually, I found all the characters to be quite unlikable. Bruce clearly begins to drift away from the friendship, but instead of addressing it, he just pulls back without explanation.
It’s a movie about self-discovery, and I think up-and-coming filmmakers might relate to it more. But for me, I found it pretty dull, and slow despite it only being 91 minutes.
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