Whoa. High praise from the master.
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A mesmerizing, visionary achievement. The best post-apocalyptic movie since the original Mad Max. With The Rover & Animal Kingdom, David Michôd proves himself to be the most uncompromising director of his generation. – Quentin Tarantino-
Thanks for posting! Nice praise!
shareTarantino gets it right all the time as a movie watcher (and director) and I haven't seen this yet (opens here later today) but Animal Kingdom was atmospheric, well-paced and filled with a mesmerizing tension. Can't wait to see this now if QT had that to say!
"Where is the universe?" - Egg Shen
It was nice of him to do the quote. He apparently saw the film at the Arclight, loved it, and then called them up to offer the quote.
I get the feeling that this one is much slower paced than Animal Kingdom, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm seeing it today. Can't wait.
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it's a masterpiece, you're in a for a treat! It's on a whole different level than Animal Kingdom.
shareI was already sold on it, but wow...yeah I loved it.
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It's amusing that Tarantino was so impressed by The Rover, simply because while Tarantino's films have a lot of violence, they're very heavy on dialog.
Michod is so spare with his dialog, it's like the opposite of a Tarantino film. He must have been blown away by a film that conveyed so much power and emotion with so few words. Brilliant direction and superb acting. I hope Michod gets a lot of recognition for this, he deserves it.
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Some other well known people have been impressed by The Rover, too:
Dean Georgaris @DGeorgaris ·
Just saw #The rover. A masterpiece that some will get. Some will not. I thought it was SPECTACULAR.
Dean Georgaris @DGeorgaris ·
More on #the rover. Guy pierce is spectacular. Robert Pattinson is very much his equal. He's Heart-breaking. Brilliant. A true actor.
Dean Georgaris is the writer of films like Manchurian Candidate, and Wanted. Producer of films like Life of Pi, What Happens in Vegas, and The Crazies.
Jaime King @Jaime_King
I recommend The Rover by @bluetonguefilms and In The Mood For Love by Wong Kar-Wai and Spiritual Warrior by John Roger @robindxggers
@KeriHilson
ahahaaa! This made my day✨ on.vh1.com/1sF6khh Guys, go see @TheRoverMovie!!! I can't wait!! Hi Rob ☺️
Russell Hainline @RussellHFilm
THE ROVER: an improvement over ANIMAL KINGDOM. Career-best work by Robert Pattinson, and the most unexpected music cue you'll hear all year.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to delete my post,
Anyway, I just want to know when the movie will be for VOD, in USA?
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Post-apocaliptic? I would say second Great Depression, there is still (some) social order, but the economy is totally collapsed, "law" in the outback were each person lives miles apart is maintained by the army, we can presume, much like Mad Max (1) there is still order in the big cities.
shareFrom Fashcam.com -- Great Films the Awards Missed...
And he selects The Rover:
...And while my choice for the best film of the year hasn’t appeared on many reviewers’ lists, and received only a very short run in theaters, I feel a critical responsibility to bring this minor masterpiece to greater attention. The Rover, directed by David Michôd, is one of the most ambitious, well-crafted and compelling films I have seen. Michôd, whose debut film, the Australian kitchen-sink gangster saga, Animal Kingdom (2010) galvanized cinephiles and critics everywhere, here ventures forth in an even more experimental direction, though one no less rooted in genre. If Michelangelo Antonioni had directed Mad Max from a script by Cormac McCarthy, it might have looked something like The Rover. And if that isn’t a searing endorsement, I don’t know what is. This is one of my favourite films of this past year and it deserves extensive analysis.
The greatest praise I can shower on The Rover is that it invites us as viewers to pay attention, and moreover to pay attention to how we pay attention to films. Critics who condemned the film for its simple plotline are wide of the mark. Simplicity does not mean simplistic, and the film’s nominal plot is a frame for some of the most ambitious experiments in characterization, cinematic rhythm and genre revisionism in recent years...
...The film is essentially an extended chase, but the motives behind his relentless pursuit to regain his vehicle aren’t found till much later. Along the way he picks up Rey, the brother of one of the car robbers, a seeming dullard, played by Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame. Rey is first presented as Eric’s hostage, ransom for the return of his car but gradually the two begin to carve a partnership necessary to their mutual survival in this uncertain and violent landscape.
Rey reveals he and his brother came to Australia from the States to seek mining work, suggesting that some basic industries may still be operative. When Rey later displays the ability to speak Mandarin, we must reassess our opinion about both him and the geopolitics of this world. The part is a breakthrough performance for the actor who brandishes a convincing Southern accent and reveals a depth of emotion in what is one of the most skilfully interiorized and physically nuanced performances of the year, and if the film had been seen by more people, certainly merits awards nominations....
The full thing is here:
http://fashcam.com/great-films-the-awards-missed-david-michods-the-rover-starring-guy-pearce-and-robert-pattinson/
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From First Showing (Top 5 films from Cannes):
The more I think back to this film, the more it grows on me. It is very simple: a man in a crime-ridden, post-apocalyptic Australian outback just wants to get his stolen car back. Guy Pearce plays that man, and it’s set in a dirty post-apoc Mad Max-esque wasteland, where the violence is visceral, the people are slimy, and everything is covered with a gritty dust.
Similar to Drive, one of my favorite films of Cannes 2012, the power of The Rover is in its silence, and it uses that silence (and minimal dialogue) very effectively to convey so much, to speak loudly without being loud.
The more I think about the story, as simple as it may be, the more I think about what wasn’t said, and what director David Michod doesn’t show us, the more I realize there’s an immense depth to this that goes way beyond all the grit and grime on every person in it.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2014-10-14/dvdanger-the-evil-that-men-do/
Pearce, as always, is masterful. His depiction and description of a man walking through an amoral landscape, one who has adapted perfectly to this new paradigm, and despairs of those that cling to the old orthodoxies, is peerless. Well, not quite.
This is yet another revelatory role for Pattinson (yes, some day we'll stop being surprised that the guy from Twilight is really that good). Rey is not the brightest bulb in the box, with an implication of learning or possibly developmental disabilities. Just as Benno tries to break Tore's devotion to God, Eric rolls his eyes whenever Rey swears that his brother didn't mean to leave him behind, that he'll be glad to see him.
There is a kinship, although it is mutated: Tore seems oblivious, while Rey is no innocent, and Pattinson never forgets that he's playing a violently inclined thug. On the other hand, Benno is a scumbag just because he can be. When Eric unleashes an act of seeming inexplicable violence, the question is, why? Why is he so obsessed with getting his car back, when he seems quite happy to, ahem, liberate the property of others?
While Gebbe strikes almost purely emotional notes, The Rover's writer/director David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) takes a more philosophical bent, depicting post-morality man as a product of his sand-blasted environment.
Tarantino likes some awful films so I would take what he says with a grain of salt.
I love his early movies, but his stuff post Jackie Brown has been cartoony nonsense that ranges from mediocre (KB) to horrible (Death Proof).
I read a lot of books about Tarantino when he first "arrived" and I remember one of his longtime friends was talking about how Tarantino would watch literally anything, no matter how good or bad. He mentioned how he'd come home and Tarantino would be sitting there on the couch watching some horrible made for TV movie and just be completely enthralled.
I remember reading an article he wrote a while back about some series of B westerns (Roy Rodgers westerns) and how the director was this great overlooked "auteur". To quote one of his friends from one of those books I read about Tarantino, he likes a lot of "crap movies".
Anyway, I just tried to watch Rover, I got it from the library just on a whim having never heard of it before so I had zero preconceived notions about it. I like a Guy Pierce and the movies premise sounded interesting.
I thought it was ugly and boring. It reminded me tone wise of the Road which I also hated. I fell asleep about halfway through Rover and am trying to decide of I want to try and finish it. It just seems like a pointless ugly boring film so far though.
ha, too funny, while watching i thought QT would like this, he has to some of the early scenes are heavily inspired by QT. Him liking this is just a form of masterbation
shareI puked no less than 5 times when you said "the master."
He's a *beep* person and his views are steaming piles of *beep*
The Rover's not bad though.