5º – Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
A teacher from a small Australian town decides to spend his holidays in Sydney. However, in the middle of his trip to the city, he decides to make a stop to rest in another unknown small town, called Bundanyabba, known by its happy inhabitants as Yabba. In the place – always under an intense and relentless heat – the man ends up getting involved with gambling in a bar, losing all his money that he would use to arrive and live in Sydney. Well, it is from that moment that we will follow the ordeal of the character who finds himself trapped in Yabba, a place seen as heaven for its inhabitants, but faced as worse than hell by the poor teacher. A supreme masterpiece of Australian cinema in the 1970s, ‘Wake in Fright’ is a film nightmare, exploring one of the most cruel and terrifying journeys of a character ever seen in the seventh art. A film to be tasted in all its strangeness during its 109 minutes of projection.
4º – American Ultra (Nima Nourizadeh, 2015)
A young man with constant memory problems ends up discovering that he was an important spy and that the government of his country now wants him dead. With this in mind, it will be up to the young man and his girlfriend to run away and try in every way to survive. ‘American Ultra’ ends up worthwhile for its short duration (96 Min.), because its plot sometimes leaves something to be desired. In the cast’s field, we have once again the partnership between Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, both with irrevocable performances.
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