Nicolas Cage is placing the rumble and tumble into surf and turf.
The long-lasting actor leads psychological thriller “The Surfer,” which facilities on a person combating native surfers in a turf conflict to reclaim his beachfront residence.
Cage stars as an unnamed character who brings his teenage son (Finn Little) to the Australian seashore the place he was raised. His character is an Australian who moved to California when he himself was a teen after his father was discovered useless on the identical seashore. Now, he desires to reestablish his Aussie roots on the town — the one subject is that the locals are lower than thrilled to welcome him again.
The synopsis reads: “A person returns to the idyllic seashore of his childhood to surf along with his son. However his want to hit the waves is thwarted by a bunch of locals whose mantra is “don’t stay right here, don’t surf right here.” Humiliated and offended, the person is drawn right into a battle that retains rising in live performance with the punishing warmth of the summer time and pushes him to his breaking level.”
Alexander Bertrand, Julian McMahon, and Nic Cassim additionally star. Cage, Leonora Darby, James Harris, Robert Connolly, James Grandison, Brunella Coccighlia, and Nathan Klingher produce the function.
The function is billed as a psychological thriller-comedy with surreal components. Lorcan Finnegan directs from a script by Thomas Martin. “The Surfer” premiered within the Midnight part of the 2024 Cannes Movie Competition.
The IndieWire evaluate cited the nods to Nineteen Seventies New Wave Australian cinema, particularly with its aesthetic allusions to Peter Weir and George Miller. Further movie comparisons embody Ted Kotcheff’s “Wake in Fright” and Nicolas Roeg’s “Walkabout,” each from 1971.
“For any time travellers from the early 2010s who nonetheless view Nicolas Cage as a meme useful resource above all else, there are plentiful wild moments that may little question go viral on social media with all traces of their tragic context eliminated,” the evaluate states. “In a single second of desperation, his character contemplates feasting on a useless rat, earlier than opting to as a substitute retailer it in his pocket as his lone companion within the limbo of the automobile park. Regardless of all the fashion, it’s nonetheless only a rat and Nic Cage.”
Cage will subsequent lead David O. Russell’s ’70s-set biopic “Madden” about NFL legend John Madden. Cage is portraying the titular determine throughout his tenure because the coach of the Oakland Raiders.
“The Surfer” premieres Could 2 in theaters from Lionsgate and Roadside Sights. Try the trailer under.