Strangerland

2015 • 111 minutes

About this movie

Newly arrived to a remote desert town, Catherine (Nicole Kidman) and Matthew (Joseph Fiennes) are tormented by suspicion when their two teenage children mysteriously vanish into a dust storm that leaves only cryptic incriminations and family secrets in its wake.

Ratings and reviews

Strangerland is film about shame, loneliness, guilt. The Famliy in this film had a bad patch and never faced together and as a result the lack of communication slowly destroys everyone's trust and it comes to a feverpitch when the daughter runs away. The lesson learned for me was talk to your loved ones and don't bottle up the pain cause it will hurt you and the ones you love the must. Plus the soundtrack is cool too.

Though the characters are intense and all seem to have issues, the story in itself ends up nowhere and offers very little closure or insight to most of the characters. Very drawn out and was expecting a bit more and just ends up feeling very incomplete. I am very sick of movies ending so open ended or unresolved, this needs to stop.

An interesting story. I found that the dynamics of an obviously dysfunctional family with parents who have unresolved issues such as anger, guilt and resentment to be more of the core of the story than just two missing kids. Also the acting was incredibly good.