About “All is Lost”
Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee J.C. Chandor (Margin
Call) with a musical score by Alex Ebert (Edward Sharpe &
The Magnetic Zeros), the
film is a gripping,visceral
and powerfully moving tribute to ingenuity and resilience.
Deep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man (Redford) wakes to find his
39-foot yacht taking on water after a collision with a shipping container left
floating on the high seas. With his navigation equipment and radio
disabled, the man sails unknowingly into the path
of a violent storm. Despite his success in patching the breached hull, his
mariner’s intuition and
a strength that belies his age, the man barely survives the tempest.
Using only a sextant and nautical
maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane
in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting,
sharks circling and his
meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds
himself staring his mortality
in the face.
Awards
Robert Redford was hailed Best
Actor in the NYFCC (New York Film Critics Circle) Awards and nominated in the
Golden Globe Awards and Critic’s Choice Movie Awards. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
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