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- 2004
- Not Rated
- ArtMattan Productions
- 1 h 30 m
- 2004
- Not Rated
- ArtMattan Productions
- 1 h 30 m
Summary The year is 1922. The Tracker has the job of pursuing The Fugitive, an aborigine who is suspected of murdering a white woman, as he leads three mounted policemen: The Fanatic, The Follower and also The Veteran across the outback. (ArtMattan)
Directed By: Rolf de Heer
Written By: Rolf de Heer
- 2004
- Not Rated
- ArtMattan Productions
- 1 h 30 m
- 2004
- Not Rated
- ArtMattan Productions
- 1 h 30 m
The Tracker
71
3.8
Summary The year is 1922. The Tracker has the job of pursuing The Fugitive, an aborigine who is suspected of murdering a white woman, as he leads three mounted policemen: The Fanatic, The Follower and also The Veteran across the outback. (ArtMattan)
Directed By: Rolf de Heer
Written By: Rolf de Heer
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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19% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
71
75% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
19% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The best Australian feature I've seen in years.
Redeemed by its adherence to a simple yet distinctive approach to storytelling and its uniformly strong acting.
Australian "Westerns" occur. An exceptional one is The Tracker, which has the shape of an offbeat American Western and seems at first a sort of Down Under copy. But it develops characters and relationships that are indigenous.
Much of The Tracker, a blunt morality tale about Australian racism, is heavy going.
A third aspect of The Tracker is less successful. In a badly calculated move, Mr. de Heer and singer Graham Tardif fill the soundtrack with songs full of clichés, platitudes, and truisms.
A decent little exercise in nativist outrage, Rolf de Heer's The Tracker, with its dynamic between indigene and colonial oppressor, could've easily been a western.
An underwritten drama.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
3.8
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Production Company
Adelaide Festival of Arts,
SBS Independent,
Vertigo Productions
Release Date Jan 16, 2004
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline The Fanatic. The Follower. The Fugitive. The Tracker.
Awards
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
• 4 Wins & 7 Nominations
IF Awards
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
Australian Film Institute
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
