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(2018)In the midst of a cold and barren landscape, two strangers struggle to come to terms with their traumatic pasts. One of them, a young man on parole for attempting to murder the person responsible for his girlfriend's hit-and-run death, meets a woman who has just been released from a psychiatric facility far from her homeland. These two damaged individuals cross paths in the snowy mountains and engage in a complex and intimate relationship that tests their capacity to trust and heal.
July. 22,2018
1 hr 44 min
Dustin Feneley
Dustin Feneley
Long Road Films
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Stray is a 2018 New Zealand film directed and written by Dustin Feneley. Starring Arta Dobroshi, Kieran Charnock, Luciane Buchanan, Mia Blake, and Gerard Murphy, the film is about two strangers who struggle to repair their sorrowful pasts in a cold and remote place. A young man is on parole for attempting to murder the man who killed his girlfriend. And he confronts a woman who has been released from a mental hospital far from her homeland. The two disappointed strangers come across the mountains in winter and develop a complex close relationship, which tests their mutual trust and healing power.
The leading male role Jack is portrayed by Kieran Charnock, who is famous for Rehearsal. Jack is a young man on parole for severe hurt on his body, Curling up in a cabin in Central Otago. He still struggles with forgetting the past or reconciling with it. The leading female role Grace is portrayed by Arta Dobroshi, who makes her name for Lorna’s Silence. A deep loneliness is hidden beneath her captivating attraction to Jack.
Stray presents a unique aesthetic discipline in New Zealand film history and features great darkness and natural light, contributed by talented DP Ari Wegner. Most parts of this film are without dialogue and follow Jack’s boring daily life, which could be regarded as a kind of minimalist narrative style to create a sense of tranquility.