Tracks

(2nd viewing) Hits a wrong note from the start as it places its audience in the shoes of a young woman who doesn't wish for anyone to share in her experience. Plus, hardly any adversity is presented for us to really care about our rarely famished, perpetually looked after lonesome traveler; Heck, she even goes swimming at a certain point. At least the gorgeous cinematography and a endlessly watchable Wasikowska provide some compensation.

I don't get what's difficult, special or spiritual about this journey... She made it through quite easily. Beautifully shot though, and Wasikowska is good.

For once, the outback is portrayed not as a playground of depraved maniacs, but as a relatively safe natural habitat where thirst and loneliness are the sole dangers. The 1700-mile journey inevitable falls into the progress-difficulty-progress template typical of any epic voyage movie, but Wasikowska impressively carries us through with her acting range and painstaking portrayal of a troubled soul searching for answers. Good characters and some funny/sweet moments round this out nicely.

An engrossing biopic about a woman who walked across 1,700 miles of deserts in West Australia with four camels and a dog. Mia Wasikowska nearly singlehandedly carries the film, while Adam Driver offers some laughs. Stunning photography and soundtrack make it a visual and aural pleasure.

A perfectly serviceable "inspirational" drama about a woman travelling across the Australian desert. Wasikowska is again quite good in the role. Any film about a long nature journey is probably going to be pretty to look at, but even so it's quite well shot. It just didn't do a hell of a lot for me.

A young Sheila embarks on a solo journey halfway across the Outback and finds that life isn't all a basket of Bloomin' Onions and free ice tea refills. Life is filled with people who are kind and people who suck, and eventually those sucky ones will pull you so far down into the muck, you won't be able to get back up without the help of the kind ones. The kind ones and camels. At least three camels. And a shotgun. Definitely a shotgun. Oh, and a dog. Gotta have a dog. Yeah.

Reminded me of 'Into The Wild' in how it perfectly captures the essence of romanticism with great focus on self-discovery. However, the character arc isn't nearly as strong and without true conflict, keeping interest can be challenging at times. Mandy Walker's cinematography is a delight though.

The film looks pretty and Wasikowska always does a great job, but there isn't quite enough conflict to make the story interesting. Seems like a real life story that was interesting on paper but didn't translate to an interesting film,

They should've told her history in the beginning of the movie, or left it out completely, instead of ruin the mood and flow of the story with these flashbacks. Wasikowska is great as usual.

Feels like a TV movie: sappy, cliched soundtrack, 2-dimensional characterization, choppy pacing, flashbacks and weirdly bland cinematography (it doesn't take much to make the outback look pretty!). The only thing that the film nailed was the casting--the leads legitimately looked like their real-life counterparts. Overall, enjoyable enough to get through the whole thing but very forgettable.

This film features good cinematography with admirable landscape shots highlighting the obvious barren land encountered while the main character was travelling across the Australian outback. I got the sense that Robyn craved the isolation that the landscape provided and I could relate to her frustration and awkwardness felt when confronted with the frequent arrival of the National Geographic photographer, looking for her to create what she criticised as artificial representations of herself.

Movie about a nice girl walking through beautiful scenery. A relaxing treat for sunday afternoon hangover film sessions. The simple and straightforward story is more than enough and even gets quite gripping at some points.

Great pictures, acting and soundtrack but the story does drag on at times

Great performance from Mia Wasikowska along with a beautiful setting. Soundtrack was a plus.

A thoroughly engrossing story that's also not particularly good from a screenwriting point of view. I would have liked to see an even more minimalistic take on Tracks, less dialog, no flashbacks, one that reflected Robyn's isolation and loneliness and the actual time that it took to undertake the journey.

robyn was a horrible woman :/

Excellent true life adventure but her bi-polar way of dealing with other people is truly off-putting.

This film is beautiful and speaks to the human need to be adventurous and daring. Be forewarned, it does not come without its costs. Although I do not see it mirrored in others' reviews, this was simply the saddest work of fiction I've ever experienced. One scene of high thematic importance will haunt me for days if not weeks. If you enjoy psychological depth in your movies, you'll find it's anything but boring.

Should primarily be seen for the amazing performance by Wasikowska in a very 'closed' role and its harsh visciral realisation of a journey. It's sort of part 'Into the Wild', part 'Wendy and Lucy', part 'Walkabout'. Comtemplative, meditative and beauiful.

Freeingly detached from routine movie obstacles and setpieces, the point of no return here is an inner struggle. Some repetitive moments makes the plot feel a little under-edited, but ends up adding to the feeling of experienced journey that should be every travel films ultimate goal.

Essentially a dream journey, at its heart wonderfully impressionistic. That's the way to accept it, because the little dramas along the way don't really make it into a narrative, and the girl remains a mystery.

it's a cute movie, mia is great. but overall = boring! and is not able to make sense at all.. all that good music and dialog just could not bring this flick higher than all is lost.

1260: the film was not bad. the subject was boring!

"I'd always been drawn to the purity of the desert. Its hot wind and wide open spaces. But mainly I was bored of life in the city, with its repetitions, my half-finished, half-hearted attempts at jobs and various studies. And I was sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity that was so much the malaise of my generation [...]" So this is what happened to the missing pages of my diary!

The sort of movie that deserves a Michael Palin voiceover saying "The story of a woman who went looking for something and found... herself." Gorgeously shot, and Wasikowska squeezes every ounce out of the role, but I can't help but feel there's a story needing to be told somewhere.

A film about the incredible true story of a young woman who travels solo across the deserts of Western Australia. Well acted, beautifully filmed, with a supporting cast of amazing characters. She does it on foot with a handful of camels and her faithful companion dog, Diggity. You can see through the film just how harsh and unforgiving the deserts in Australia are but at the same time it's just so gosh darned beautiful. Highly recommended.

A beautiful, powerful portrait of a woman's conflicted relationship with the natural world: the love, the hate, the love again. Mia Wasikowska is tremendous; her animal co-stars make for sweet support. Stunning cinematography.