REDFORD. Portrays an unnamed sailor struggling to survive in “All Is Lost.”
Robert Redford is in dire peril in “All Is Lost.” He may be 77, but the New York Film Critics Circle-winning, virtuoso performance he delivers in the shipwreck drama is nothing short of spectacular. (We’re happy to announce that the survival drama is part of UIP-Solar’s February-March rollout.)
In “Gravity,” Sandra Bullock’s soul-stirring existential crisis is somehow leavened by George Clooney’s “occasional” appearances, as well as copious lines that reflect her character’s intimations of mortality.
But, in director JC Chandor’s minimalist movie, Redford is basically left to his own devices—as an unnamed sailor struggling with the elements on a 39-foot yacht with a gaping hole in its hull in the tempestuous waters of the Indian Ocean!
Almost dialogue-free
The film has only a 32-page script and is almost dialogue-free—the bulk of Redford’s eight lines makes up most of the beleaguered sailor’s gloomy voiceover in the beginning of the film, which takes place eight days after the yacht’s run-in with an itinerant shipping container. The events that take place thereafter chronicle his struggle to survive.
In the crucial voiceover, Redford intimates, “I’m sorry. I know that means little at this point—but, I am. I think you’d all agree that I tried—to be true, to be strong, to be kind, to love, to be right. But, I wasn’t. —All is lost.”
Is he going to make it? The rest of the movie will lead you to the answer—and to the indubitable realization of the fathomless depths of Robert Redford’s gifts as an actor!