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JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014SPECIAL PRESENTATIONSUNDAY 16TH FEBRUARY‘achingly beautiful’ The TelegraphTRACKSSun 16 Feb / Savoy 1 / 11am / 110 minutesDirector: John Curran 2013 Australia/UKWriter: Marion NelsonCast: Mia Wasikowska, Adam DriverWith the support of the Australian Embassy DublinRobyn Davidson’s remarkable journey in 1977 across1,700 miles of Australian desert with four camels anda dog is given a richly sensorial screen treatment inJohn Curran’s Tracks. Alternately haunting, inspiringand dreamily meditative, this is a visually majesticfilm of transfixing moods and textures. Its stealth-likeemotional charge is fuelled by unerring work fromMia Wasikowska. Required here to carry the film moresingle-handedly than in any role since Jane Eyre, shedoes arguably her most riveting screen work to date.The screenplay expands upon the presence ofRick Smolan (played by Adam Driver), an Americanphotographer who documented the journey forNational Geographic magazine. The threat of animposed ‘love interest’ twisting the story is avertedthanks to the sly humour, bumbling nerdiness andslow-release reserves of sensitivity that Driver injectsinto his deft characterization. But the dual heart of thedrama is Robyn and the landscape across which shetravels. Tracks is a stirring depiction of the clarity andself-discovery that can come with isolation in nature,and probably the best film of its kind since SeanPenn’s Into the Wild.David RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterBOOK ONLINE AT JDIFF.COM 43