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The Road (dir. Hillcoat)
Expected Release Date: TBA
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce & Kodi Smit-McPhee
Studio: Dimension Films
The Road, directed by John Hillcoat, is the latest Cormac McCarthy novel to undergo a cinematic makeover. It’s set in a post apocalyptic America where the elements converge to devastating effect and The Road seems pregnant with the possibilty of every conceivable act of lawlessness.
Starring Mortensen and newcomer Smit-McPhee as the father-son dyad, The Road like No Country For Old Men is tense, disheartening and haunting fraught with disturbing images. I haven’t read the novel from which No Country For Old Men was adapted but having read The Road and seen the initial screenshots I can feel the sense of darkness which plagued the novel.
It’s a certainty to say the film will not be an easy watch. Director John Hillcoat’s directorial debut, The Proposition was an underrated triumph and one of its many strengths included the cinematography of the wild Americana landscapes. The look and feel of the film is safe hands it seems.
Scored by Nick Cave ( I loved his minimalistic score for The Assasination of Jesse James), The Road provides many possible avenues for success. For the director of course, but perhaps most encouragingly for Viggo Mortensen who may find his moment in the Oscar limelight is not too far down ‘The Road’…
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