Brody does very a great Australian accent in thoughtful story hinged on psyche-destroying effects of a repressed memoryAdrien Brody walks around with his best spooked-out face in the moody Australian thriller Backtrack,sizing up every moment as whether it were tailor-made to haunt or depress him. The Oscar-winning import seems to be in the constant process of fighting off horrifyingly grim visions: a hallucination of a dead grandmother crawling up his legs with a steak knife between her teeth, for example, or a renewed season of You’re Back in the Room.Moments of slightly more nuanced acting occur from time to time,generally involving worried looks that press both sides of Brody’s brow together, creating a sadness-enclave where the film’s quieter moments are expressed. The bloke also sports a pretty bloody great Australian accent, or more the metropolitan latte-sipping type than the Dundee-esque outdoorsman. Related: Manhattan Night review – tough-boiled,but half-baked neo-noir Related: The Exorcist review – Philip French on William Friedkin’s stark, demonic horror Related: Hunt for the Wilderpeople review: Sam Neill + misfit kid = Kiwi hit Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com