Una giovane donna intraprende un viaggio di 1.700 miglia attraverso i deserti dell'Australia occidentale con quattro cammelli e il suo fedele cane.Una giovane donna intraprende un viaggio di 1.700 miglia attraverso i deserti dell'Australia occidentale con quattro cammelli e il suo fedele cane.Una giovane donna intraprende un viaggio di 1.700 miglia attraverso i deserti dell'Australia occidentale con quattro cammelli e il suo fedele cane.
- Premi
- 2 vittorie e 19 candidature
- Peter
- (as Brendan MacLean)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizThere have been many attempts to bring Robyn Davidson's adventure memoir to the big screen. Over the years both Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman have been attached to the lead role. Development on the movie adaptation began before lead actress Mia Wasikowska was even born.
- BlooperRobyn's trek takes about nine months. But her hair stays the same length, neatly blunt cut, throughout the journey/movie.
- Citazioni
Robyn: [narrating] Animal lovers, especially female ones, are often accused of being neurotic and unable to relate to other human beings. More often than not, those pointing the finger have never had a pet. It seems to me the universe gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these gifts was dogs.
- Curiosità sui creditiThe initial credits are shown over original photos from the "Tracks" book and the National Geographic article. The photos, taken by Rick Smolan, show Robyn Davidson during the actual walk.
- ConnessioniFeatured in At the Movies: Venice Film Festival 2013 (2013)
- Colonne sonoreSunburned
Written by Tim Rogers (as Rogers), Davey Lane, (as Lane), Andy Kent (as Kent) and Russell Hopkinson (as Hopkinson)
Performed by You Am I
This is one of those movies where the adventure itself is used as a means of the lead character exploring themselves as well as the more literal physical journey. Davidson endures both physical and psychological hardships along the way. While she never really goes into any detail as to why she is impelled to embark on her journey, we understand from various dream-like flashbacks that her mother committed suicide when she was an infant and this event has gone some way into shaping her the way she is. She is a loner and very self-contained but her subsequent adventure makes her realise more fully in the importance of others and that relying and respecting other folks is no bad thing and her own personal goals should at the very least be offset against these aspects.
Mia Wasikowska is very good as Davidson, she is quite believable in the role in a way that a lot of other actresses would not be, while Adam Driver also makes a mark as the photographer who is a little annoying but essentially a good person. The dramatics are fairly sparse here though because ultimately this is a film about solitude to a large extent. Consequently, a lot of the focus is on the landscape, terrain and animals. The excellent photography is very effective here in capturing both the beauty but also the harsh arid nature of this world. And the camels and dog are elevated to important and lovable characters and are also photographed very well. It should also be pointed out here that Wasikowska really seems to have put herself in some danger with her up and close interactions with some pretty scary mouth-frothing camels. This is clearly a role she committed herself to fully.
I always think that the Australian outback is such a cinematic place and its long flat horizons are particularly well suited to the widescreen frame – think Walkabout (1971), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) or the more conventional recent Mystery Road (2013). It's specific combination of untamed nature, enigmatic indigenous people, functional isolated settlements and the western world close but so far away is a concoction that is unusual and ensures that Australian films set in the outback do often have their own unique feeling. Tracks is another in this type and it is appealing for all of these reasons. It, of course, has the added advantage of being a true story which always lends something extra. I'm not sure if you could exactly describe it as a travelogue picture though, as aside from brief sequences featuring the likes of Uluru, its landscape is far more harsh and arid and not precisely what you would describe as beautiful. Because of this, it feels like an authentic depiction of the real event. It's a quite minimalistic example of the biopic and a very good one.
- Red-Barracuda
- 28 apr 2014
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- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 510.007 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 21.544 USD
- 21 set 2014
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 5.853.509 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 52 minuti
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- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 2.40 : 1