By Travis Johnson
Screen real estate is hotly contested territory in the Australian market, and there are always dozens of worthy festival darlings that fail to get a wider theatrical run – and thus fail to get in front of a wider audience. It is with great pleasure we relay the news that Greg McLean’s Jungle – which we liked a whole lot – will be in cinemas from November 9, 2017, thanks to our amigos over at Umbrella.
Based on the memoir Back from Tuichi: The Harrowing Life-And-Death Story of Survival in the Amazon Rainforest by Yossi Ghinsberg, Jungle sees the woefully unlucky Yossi, played by Daniel Radcliffe, tested to near-destruction when he becomes lost in the Amazonian hinterlands after he and some backpacker mates pick the wrong tour guide. Spoiler: he lives (there, is, after all, a book).
To mark the occasion, it’s also got a new poster:
A stranger and more oblique film than you might expect, Jungle represents a major leap forward of McLean as a director, and is absolutely worth checking out on the big screen, should the opportunity present itself – which, as we said, it will, so make it happen.
