Featuring: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver
Director: John Curran
Writers: Marion Nelson
Movie website: www.transmissionfilms.com.au/index.php/tracks/
Australian release date: Thursday 6 March, 2014

Reviewers’ verdicts:
rolanstein: Magnificently shot, superbly performed, breathing with the timeless spirit of the desert outback – this is epic cinema at its best.
Karen: Disappointing, but worth seeing.

Story:
With her dog and four camels, solitary young misfit Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) sets off on a trek from Alice Springs through the wilderness of the central deserts to the Indian Ocean. Part-funded by National Geographic magazine, she is obligated to meet up with New York photographer Rick Smolan (Adam Driver) at various checkpoints along the way for photo sessions. She views his presence as compromising her ideal of the solo journey, but as the trek starts to wear her down physically and mentally, their professional relationship becomes personal. Although she derives sustenance from his support and her interactions with indigenous desert peoples, her journey is hers alone, pushing her to almost unendurable limits. Based on ‘Camel Lady’ Robyn Davidson’s written account of her 2700km sand-to-sea trans-Australia trek in the mid-70s.

Review 1: (rolanstein)
The movie opens with an extraordinary shot: a woman seemingly walking upside down until her shadow comes into view and restores the perspective. This creative, captivating camerawork has a poetic quality about it; that is, it works both aesthetically and as a carrier of meaning beyond the literal. And it’s a sign of things to come – cinematographically, Tracks is magnificent. Continue reading Tracks Movie Review →