Strangerland

2015 "To find the truth they must lose themselves."
5.2| 1h51m| R| en
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Newly arrived to a remote desert town, Catherine and Matthew are tormented by a suspicion when their two teenage children mysteriously vanish.

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Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.
Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
dgar1948 I liked the movie. It was kind of slow and confusing at times but overall a good movie. I imagine people living in a small isolated town like that one would be a little weird, so isolated. Looked like it was Mars. Nicole Kidman was great I thought the way she portrayed the distraught mom with a past of her own. The ending was disappointing I thought, left you hanging. What happened to Lily? Was she murdered, Did Burtie kill her, was her body out there somewhere, did the unknown driver of the car her brother saw take her to where the concert was going to be held? And if she did go with him why did they leave the boy out there to die? A few questions unanswered in that movie but maybe that's the way the producers wanted it. Now I'm going to wonder forever if Lily died or went to another town. Good movie though.
antoniotierno A dusty and stuffy Australian drama by first-time director Kim Farrant, who echoes the Outback-set aura of some of her country's best films—Picnic at Hanging Rock, Walkabout, and A Cry in the Dark. Nicole Kidman, who's rarely spoken in her native accent on screen a handful of times since her film debut plays in a perfect way the role of Catherine, a mother to two teenagers in an Aussie desert town. Kidman's best performances have often been as grieving moms and on this occasion provides another excellent acting. On a visual scale, Strangerland naturally takes advantage of the landscape's harsh light, and its quality rises with an arrestingly shot sandstorm happening around the movie's halfway mark. Fiennes as well acts (almost) perfectly but what in my opinion matters the most is the suitable location and atmosphere.
SnoopyStyle The Parkers move to a remote Australian desert town. Matthew (Joseph Fiennes) is a pharmacist and has a struggling marriage with Catherine (Nicole Kidman). They moved after their promiscuous underage daughter Lily had an affair with her teacher and Matthew beat him up. Lily continues to be sexually loose in the new town hanging out with the skaters. Their son Tommy sleepwalks and Lily follows him out into the night. The next day, Catherine discovers that neither of them have been going to school and both are missing. A sand storm strikes. They go to the local sheriff David Rae (Hugo Weaving). The family's dysfunction and the town's darker sides are slowly revealed.I can understand all the hate. This movie starts promising some kind of mystery but it slowly switches to something different. The weirdness starts with Catherine aggressively initiating sex while her children is missing. It is really off-putting until I quickly realized that this movie is about Catherine who is borderline. Matthew is at times her enabler and has his own volatile issues. Lily's wild nature has an origin and their troubles started well before the events of this movie. This does continue with the mystery of the disappearances but this isn't solely about that. The tone is atmospheric and off-kilter. My biggest problem for me is that the movie is too ambitious. There are lots of side characters but I find them all fascinating. It's a strange movie but I like its ambitious differentness.
michelle-rosenthal Although unspoken it seems clear that Nicole Kidman's character is a sex and love addict. Her husband, Joseph Fiennes, is so repressed and full of rage (as sometimes happens to the partners of addicts). The teen daughter clearly follows in mom's footsteps adding to the father's sense of helplessness and rage. When the children disappear you see Kidman's character struggle with grief, denial, depression, and a complete mental break. From a mental health and addiction standpoint, this movie is great. But from a general movie escapism perspective it is slow moving and tedious. Yes, the movie is slow and painstaking. Just like the lives of addicts.