JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
SUNDAY 16TH FEBRUARY
‘achingly beautiful’ The Telegraph
TRACKS
Sun 16 Feb / Savoy 1 / 11am / 110 minutes
Director: John Curran 2013 Australia/UK
Writer: Marion Nelson
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver
With the support of the Australian Embassy Dublin
Robyn Davidson’s remarkable journey in 1977 across
1,700 miles of Australian desert with four camels and
a dog is given a richly sensorial screen treatment in
John Curran’s Tracks. Alternately haunting, inspiring
and dreamily meditative, this is a visually majestic
film of transfixing moods and textures. Its stealth-like
emotional charge is fuelled by unerring work from
Mia Wasikowska. Required here to carry the film more
single-handedly than in any role since Jane Eyre, she
does arguably her most riveting screen work to date.
The screenplay expands upon the presence of
Rick Smolan (played by Adam Driver), an American
photographer who documented the journey for
National Geographic magazine. The threat of an
imposed ‘love interest’ twisting the story is averted
thanks to the sly humour, bumbling nerdiness and
slow-release reserves of sensitivity that Driver injects
into his deft characterization. But the dual heart of the
drama is Robyn and the landscape across which she
travels. Tracks is a stirring depiction of the clarity and
self-discovery that can come with isolation in nature,
and probably the best film of its kind since Sean
Penn’s Into the Wild.
David Rooney
The Hollywood Reporter
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