The Animal Kingdom director brings society to its knees in his bleak new apocalyptic film, The Rover.
But I also loved it on a formal level.
And so I decided to make it.
That is the nature, I think, of collapse, explains Michod.
You know that it wasnt after an explosion or after an invasion.
I imagine a huge part of it, a huge contributor, would be some kind of economic collapse.
But, you know, no one really knows exactly how or why the Roman Empire collapsed.
I wanted it to feel very much connected to the world of today.
And theres no getting around the fact that those films are seminally important to Australian cinema.
Not only were they really good especially the first two but they were kind of genre defining.
Just like when I knew that I was kind of vaguely treading into the world of the Western.
The Roveris out now in limited release and expands nationwide on Friday, June 20.
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