The Hunter (Blu-ray) R
Some mysteries should never be solved.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 3, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Willem Dafoe, Morgana Davies, Sam Neill, Frances O'Connor & Finn Woodlock | |
Directed by | Daniel Nettheim | |
Screenwriting by | Alice Addison | |
Composition by | Michael Lira, Matteo Zingales & Andrew Lancaster |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Writer-director Rafi Pitts manages an atmosphere of choked, ambiguous dread that recalls nothing less than Godard's Alphaville.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 2/5 --
Though The Hunter aims for tension, it's way off target, hitting tedium instead. A missed opportunity.
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Hot Press
Rating: 3/5 --
Pitts turns images of everyday urban sights - plaza steps, concrete apartment houses - into reflections of Ali's sense of emptiness and entrapment.
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New York Daily News
What persists in both parts of the film is a snapshot of contemporary Iran with some of the precision, poetry, and despair that Ebrahim Golestan brought to Brick and Mirror in 1965, including the same horror of absurdist bureaucracy.
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Cinema Scope
By the time you realize how stealthy the film's critique has been, you've already fallen right into its trap.
Time Out
The clammy chill that pervades "The Hunter," the fourth feature film by the Iranian director Rafi Pitts, seeps under your skin as you wait for its grim, taciturn protagonist to detonate.
New York Times
Rather than evoking neo-realism, it recalls some of the thrillers of French director Jean-Pierre Melville, which synthesized American film noir and European art films into a lean hybrid.
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Gay City News
Product Description:
A mercenary employed by a highly secretive biotech-research company sets out into the wilds of Tasmania in search of the elusive Tasmanian tiger -- an animal assumed to be extinct by scientists, yet rumored to have been spotted in the area in recent years. Adapted from the novel by author Julia Leigh, THE HUNTER follows Martin (Willem Dafoe) as he ventures out on his mission and arrives at the home of Lucy Armstrong (Frances O'Connor), who has been heavily depressed since her husband vanished into the surrounding wilderness months ago, and who now lives alone with her young daughter Sass (Morgana Davies) and taciturn son Bike (Finn Woodlock) - who have volunteered to host him in their home during the course of his research excursion. Shortly after arriving in Tasmania, Martin is accompanied to the edge of the wilds by Jack Mindy (Sam Neill), an old friend of Lucy's who has kept watch over her family and balks at the newcomer's decision to navigate the rough terrain unaccompanied. In the wake of a clash with hostile local loggers, Martin gradually begins to learn more about Lucy's family and develops a tenuous friendship with her two young children. But later, just as Martin begins to feel as if his goal is finally within reach, an unexpected development sends his mission into a tailspin and causes him to question the motivations behind capturing such a strange and majestic creature.
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- Sales Rank: 26,917
- UPC: 876964004701
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