#FilmNominations2014 : Most Underrrated Picture

On a year graced with a large number of excellent works is easy to overlook many equally worthy titles. Among the ones that didn’t get the support they deserved we can count John Curran’s beautiful adaptation of Robyn Davidson’s account of her adventures crossing the Australian outback, ‘Tracks’, which boasted a superb performance by Mia Wasikowska; Kelly Reichardt climate activists gone too far drama ‘Night Moves’; Michael H. Roskam’s first Hollywood opus, crime drama ‘The Drop’, adapted from a Denis Lehane novel and featuring the last role for the big screen by the late James Gandolfini, forming an excellent trio with Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace; or the darkly comic Scandinoir ‘In Order Of Disappearance’.

All of them could have been here, but this year’s nominations as most under appreciated film feature other six notable works, among them Jim Jarmusch’s return to form after years of diminishing returns, the quintessential indie filmmaker managed to shake off our vampire fatigue with an uniquely romantic take on the Gothic myth as a metaphor for artists condemned to live forever in a hostile world. ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ boasted a fantastic cast led by Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddlestone yet, despite being well received by critics, didn’t have the impact everybody expected; original and touching bittersweet drama ‘Of Horses and Men’, the debut of Icelandic helmer Benedikt Erlingsson, a beautifully lensed original story trying to be told from an equine point of view as well as the human one; Jeremy Saunier’s dark thriller ‘Blue Ruin’, one of the best US indies of the year; Richard Ayoade’s surreal take on Dostoevsky’s short doppelganger tale ’The Double’, reminiscent of the best Terry Gilliam; James Gray’s beautiful ‘The Immigrant’, condemned to follow the still experimental VOD route and left without distribution in many countries including the UK, the story of the misadventures two emigrant Polish sisters arriving to Ellis Islands endure brought another top-notch performance by Marion Cotillard, alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner; and, last but not least, the return of Chilean counterculture legend Alejandro Jodorowsky with the charming and surrealism-infused childhood memoir ‘The Dance Of Reality’, also left to trawl the festival and one-off screenings circuit. All of them should have ran a more favorable fate.

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