All Is Lost – Official Synopsis and First look Production Stilll

Posted by His Master's Review ⋅ September 29, 2013 ⋅ Leave a comment

Filed Under Academy Award, Alex Ebert, All Is Lost, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Indian Ocean, J. C. Chandor, Margin Call, Robert Redford

Allislost_FirstLook(1) “Production still by Richard Foreman courtesy of All Is Lost Productions, LLC”

By the first look, it seems that Robert Redford may actually win a Best Actor Academy Award® for All Is Lost. And about time too.

The official synopsis by Universal Pictures (Australia) is as follows:

Academy Award® winner Robert Redford stars in All Is Lost, an open-water thriller about one man’s battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. 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.

All Is Lost releases in Australian cinemas on November 14, 2013.

By Joseph Rana, Editor-in-chief, His Master’s Review