Rams Review: Down Under Do-Over Injects Broad Comedy Into Icelandic Festival Darling Rams Review: Down Under Do-Over Injects Broad Comedy Into Icelandic Festival Darling
Sam Neill and Michael Caton star in this Australian remake of Grímur Hákonarson s 2015 Icelandic dramedy, amplifying the film s underlying humor.
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Director: Jeremy Sims
With: Sam Neill, Michael Caton, Miranda Richardson, Wayne Blair, Kipan Rothbury, Travis McMahon, Hayley McElhinney, Asher Keddie, Will McNeill, Asher Yasbincek, Leon Ford.
Running time: Running time: 119 MIN.
Ian Brodie
Nearly six years ago, “Rams,” a touching humanist drama from Iceland directed and written by Grímur Hákonarson, won hearts and prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. Now, in trots “Rams,” an Australian remake, directed by Jeremy Sims (“Last Cab to Darwin”). Adapted with winning cultural specificity by former newsman Jules Duncan, it’s longer and more bro
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including reviews of A Glitch In The Matrix, Falling, Malcolm & Marie, Rams and Greenland By Norman Wilner
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OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of February 5. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Falling
(Viggo Mortensen)
Mortensen’s first feature as a writer/director finds the actor shaping a simple father-son story into a powerful meditation on compassion at any cost. It’s not perfect, but it’s powerful. Mortensen plays John, a gay man who’s taken a week off to bring his ailing father Willis (Lance Henriksen) out west from his rural New York farm. Willis is suffering from dementia and rapidly deteriorating, and John is looking to make things easier on the old man – but Willis’s illness has only amplified the fury, misogyny and homophobia that drove his family away decades earlier. Falling is rough in the way that first films can be, but even when something doesn
New Movies to Watch This Week: Malcolm & Marie, Falling and a New Studio Ghibli
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February is shaping up to be something special. In response to a pandemic-extended awards season, the sort of films that used to crowd the release calendar just before New Year’s in an effort to Oscar-qualify while also still maintaining some measure of last-minute/latest-thing freshness are now arranging to come out over the coming weeks.
Think of that as a teaser of such upcoming films as “Minari” and “Nomadland” more than a reflection of this week’s lineup, although a couple of this week’s releases feature elements the marketing departments would be happy to hear described as “Oscar worthy.”
âRamsâ Review: Ailing Sheep and Quirky Characters
This comedy-drama starring Sam Neill, Michael Caton and Miranda Richardson depicts a catastrophe for a farming community in Western Australia.
Sam Neill in “Rams.”Credit.Samuel Goldwyn Films Rams
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The rough, dirty life of Australian sheep farmers would seem an unlikely topic to yield much in the way of cinematic lyricism. Especially in a narrative involving sheep actually dying of a devastating disease. Nevertheless, âRams,â rooted in a 2016 Icelandic movie of the same name, has its pastoral moments (mostly in its breathtaking views of Western Australian landscapes), not to mention raucous comedy.
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