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