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Una mujer que lo tiene todo, estupendo matrimonio, niños, una esplendida casa y una carrera que sube como la espuma, se encuentra agotada de tanto exceso de trabajo por lo que decide, en compañía de otras madres estresadas, buscar la liberación de las responsabilidades diarias...
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ADRIEN BRODY, SAM NEILL, ROBIN McLEAVY, BRUCE SPENCE, JENNI BAIRD, CHLOE BAYLISS, ANNA LISE PHILLIPS, MALCOLM KENNARD, SUZIE STEEN, OLGA MILLER
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Writer/director Michael Petroni began making preliminary notes for what would become the spine-chilling ghost story BACKTRACK as he was writing TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US (2002). While pursuing a successful screenwriting career in Hollywood, Petroni let the story germinate in his mind over the years. By the time shooting commenced (in early January 2014) he had storyboarded the entire film. “To make a movie you’ve got to be collaborative, you’ve got to be inclusive and yet at the same time as a director people want you to make the final decisions. It’s a weird kind of benevolent dictatorship that you’re trying to create”. Petroni describes BACKTRACK as a “multifaceted genre piece” about the “universal themes of loss, guilt and memory” that remains one step ahead of its audience. Paying homage to such films as DON’T LOOK NOW and THE SIXTH SENSE, Petroni has crafted a screenplay full of dramatic tension and unexpected twists and turns. Boasting a stellar cast, the film is filled with intrigue, thrills and suspense - Backtrack will have the “audience jump out of their seats” says Petroni. Screen Australia backed the project from an early stage and was instrumental in bringing Petroni back to make films in his homeland after a long hiatus working in the US on such internationally successful films as THE BOOK THIEF, THE RIGHT and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER.
Producers Jamie Hilton and Antonia Barnard saw great potential in the film based on the strength of Petroni’s screenplay, the depth of characters and the opportunity to bring the multi-faceted plot to the big screen. Says Hilton: “Backtrack is a very clever genre film. It really delivers on an audience’s expectation. Just when you think you know where it's going, it will take an unexpected turn. The film oscillates between a psychological thriller and a mystery”.
BACKTRACK was cast by Nikki Barrett (Barrett Casting) and director Michael Petroni. Producer Jamie Hilton says, “All the actors gave such fantastic performances. Nikki Barrett did a great job casting the film with Michael and I couldn’t be happier”.
In casting the film, Petroni was looking for a lead actor “with an interior life that can be read on his face” and Adrien Brody was an obvious choice. “Adrien has the kind of face that draws you into his interior world” making him the perfect choice for the role of Peter Bower and the psychological journey we take with him in the film.
“Peter Bower has a hidden history and I think everyone can relate to that idea of having something in your past that creeps up on you. It’s the secret of his past that creates the intrigue in the story and takes you on an unexpected journey as it unravels”.
Peter Bower’s Australian accent was no obstacle for the accomplished lead, Adrien Brody. Of Brody’s accent, Petroni says, “He did a spot on job. It’s great. I’m really pleased and proud of him for that”.
Brody says: “I was a bit concerned with committing to an Australian accent, just because it is challenging to do and I wanted to do it well. It’s a complicated thing because I think you have to find the tone of the individual you’re playing more than just gravitating to sounds. You have to understand and differentiate obviously the dialect and the specificity of that dialect of the cultured, educated man from Melbourne, someone from a farm or from a regional part of Australia, so you have to find where that fits in. It has to sound like you; it has to feel like you, even if it’s very different from yourself. I think one of the interesting things was it helped me find the character more easily because I did sound so different from myself”.
The striking similarity between Peter and William Bower (Adrien Brody and George Shevtsov) will not go unnoticed by audiences. Says Petroni: “I can’t believe how similar they are and how much like father and son they really physically are, even in their mannerisms”.
Sam Neill is obviously a wonderful asset to the film in the role of Peter’s friend, colleague and confidant Duncan Steward. Says Petroni: “It was a dream come true to work with Sam and Adrien. You know, they’re such great talent. I felt that Adrien and Sam played off each other so well”.
BACKTRACK was designed by Elizabeth Mary Moore whose previous credits include THE TURNING, THE SQUARE and THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY DOCTOR. Moore’s challenge was in adapting the locations to make them work. “It was pretty clear to me that it would most likely be set-build on a location”. The biggest builds were the signal box - which had to be transported to Oberon – and the train wreck. Moore says “Some sets need to be emotionally strong so the train wreck needed to be devastating. You really need to feel this was a really big situation; people had died; it was graphic and it was big chunks of hulking metal that had ripped into people. It needs to feel like it was a tragedy”.
Costume Designer Justine Seymour’s costumes reflect the colour palette of the film. During the flashbacks of Peter with his daughter Evie, the costumes are brighter and lighter and Peter is in more colourful clothes to reflect happier times, but when the film flashes back to 1987 at the time of the train crash, Seymour naturally chose to go with a completely different colour palette.
In designing the ghost characters in the film, Seymour wanted them to appear in the clothes they were wearing when they died in the accident. Elizabeth Valentine is in her school uniform which also helped to make her look very young “because the actress that plays Elizabeth Valentine (Chloe Bayliss) is actually 22 and she’s playing a 14 year old, so to have her in a school uniform was ideal and the fact that she’s very small was very helpful to me. I made her coat a bit bigger and I wanted her to kind of get lost in the hood. The way the DP (Stefan Duscio) played with the light in the hood – it made it more scary.”
“The team of make-up artists would make the ghosts look more and more dead as the story became more and more obvious to Peter Bower. Bower’s awareness opens up and he realises what he’s seeing, and, as he realises, so does the audience”.
Anna Lise Phillips who plays Erica George, explains: “Not only am I playing a ghost, I’m playing an English woman. There are three stages of development (for my character). There’s the normal, there’s the train accident and then there’s death. You find yourself decomposing within the period of one day, and it’s very detailed work.
