- Studio: Music Box Films
- Release Date: Jun 29, 2012
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Summary:
Last Ride is a road movie through the ravishing, remote and rugged South Australian outback as ex-jailbird fugitive father Kev takes his 10-year old son Chook on the run from the law. (Music Box Films)
- Director: Glendyn Ivin
- Genre(s): Drama
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100The film is astonishing in its visual beauty; cinematographer Greig Fraser ("Snow White and the Huntsman") finds nobility in this arduous journey.
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Jun 28, 201280A tour-de-force turn from the persistently terrific Hugo Weaving lights a fuse under Last Ride, a spare and wrenching road movie delving into the complexities of a fraught father-son relationship.
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80Newcomer Russell, at once tough and vulnerable, canny and damaged, delivers a performance of nuanced naturalism that starkly conveys the sorrow and sacrifice that sometimes come with learning to achieve self-sufficiency.
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60Mr. Ivin doesn't have a strong narrative line to play with or become distracted by, but he takes off on some lovely detours, whether he's narrowing in on Chook or going wide to take in the world that waits beyond.
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