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
The gentle Australian comedy “Rams,” a remake of the highly regarded Icelandic submission to the 2016 Oscars, winningly puts viewers in the worn boots of stubborn sheep farmers and in the company of elderly brothers who can’t stop butting heads.
Colin (Sam Neill) is a kind fellow who greets his beloved flock each morning with a smiling “
You’re beautiful … and
you’re beautiful.” He’s respected in his close-knit, Western Australian sheep-farming community; he’s shyly warming up to local vet Kat (Miranda Richardson). He lives next door to an irascible, often drunk, but similarly competent farmer, Les (Michael Caton), whose prize rams are every bit as good as Colin’s and to whom he hasn’t spoken in 40 years. The two are, of course, brothers.
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