Scrap everything you’ve seen already and forget all that’s line-up for the months ahead… We’re not even half way into 2009 yet but Esquire has already named the years ‘most important movie’ – The Road, a post-apocalyptic tale of a father (Viggo Mortensen) and son on a mission for salvation in an unrecognisable America.
What makes Esquire’s statement surprising is the fact that the film was rumoured to be going straight to DVD at one point – and that a teaser trailer still isn’t available even though filming wrapped last year, but the mag’s glowing review should win around the sceptics…
“It is a brilliantly directed adaptation of a beloved novel, a delicate and anachronistically loving look at the immodest and brutish end of us all. You want them to get there, you want them to get there, you want them to get there – and yet you do not want it, any of it, to end.”
“In every moment – even the last one – you’ll want to know what happens next, even if you can hardly stand to look. Because The Road is a story about the persistence of love between a father and a son, and in that way it’s more like a remake of The Godfather than some echo of I Am Legend.”
Still dubious? You’ll just have to wait until the film’s release in autumn.
