Cert 12A
112 mins
BBFC advice: Contains strong language, bloody images
The 4th film of last Sunday, John Curran's Tracks, was back at Sheffield Cineworld, where the day started ten hours previously.
And, fortunately, this was so radically different from any movie we have seen in recent years that it kept us fully alert.
Tracks, starring the excellent Mia Wasikowska, tells the true story of Robyn Davidson's trek across Australia in 1977.
Much against the advice of friends and family, she spent two years learning how to handle camels and walked with four of them and her beloved pet dog across the desert.
If Davidson, who is still alive and, apparently, a former lover of Salman Rushie, is anything like Wasikowska's portrayal I am not sure I would be keen to meet her.
In Curran's film she is seen to be an untrusting, surly loner who only really comes alive in the presence of animals.
But nobody can take away from her the phenomenal achievement in making a journey which few had previously attempted and none had survived.
Davidson persuaded National Geographic magazine to sponsor her walk and, as a consequence, photographer Rick Smolan joined her for a few days along the way.
Adam Driver plays Smolan who, if the film is to be believed, was incredibly patient in breaking down Davidson's wall of unfriendliness.
Tracks brings to the fore the young woman's emotional highs and lows and she battles to complete her challenge and they dovetail sublimely with the epic landscape of the Australian outback.
Not since 1971's Walkabout have I seen a movie like it.
Laughs: two
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: yes
Overall rating: 8/10