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TRACKS opens in Cleveland on Friday October 3rd exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre.]
Review by Pamela Zoslov
It took decades for Robyn Davidson's
Tracks to reach the screen. The book, a memoir of Australian writer Davidson's 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of west Australia in 1977, is extremely popular, especially among women, who apparently like Davidson's determination to make her journey on her own, accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels to carry her gear.
Attempts to make a movie of
Tracks, with Julia Roberts or Nicole Kidman, began even before the leading actress in the present film, Mia Wasikowski, was born, as pointed out on the imdb movie website. The film was directed by John Curran, who made a pleasing version of Somerset Maugham's The Painted Veil, and features extraordinary cinematography by Mandy Walker that embraces the rugged beauty of the Australian outback.
