The Rooster (Mark Leonard Winter, 2023) Phoenix Raei, Hugo Weaving
When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan, a small-town cop, seeks answers from a volatile Hermit who may have been the last person to see his friend alive.
Luke Buckmaster:
Mark Leonard Winter recently delivered an excellent, vividly detailed portrait of an introvert in the under-appreciated Australian film Little Tornadoes. Here he jumps behind the camera in his directorial debut, helming a drama about a cop (Phoenix Raei) who, after a troubling incident, runs into the woods where he meets a scabby hermit played by Hugo Weaving. The last six words in that sentence should be enough to get you through the door [into the cinema]. Guardian.
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