“Mangez le rat!”
Now, let us all be honest. There has only been one surf film, ever, worth the time of an auteur and that is Bruce Brown’s seminal masterpiece The Endless Summer. Others, including Point Break, North Shore, Blue Crush are cute. Others still, including Chasing Mavericks and In God’s Hands, are so offensive as to count as crimes against humanity.
None, though, has received a knee-buckling six minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival. None except Nicolas Cage’s new offering The Surfer, that is.
Variety shared, “Cage appeared to be having a ball, beaming from ear to ear and waving across the room as cheers erupted around the Palais for the film, a wild, mind-bending adventure that sees the fan favorite hit the sort of deranged peaks not witnessed on screen since ‘Mandy.’ At one point he took the mic to ask how to say “eat the rat” in French — a line from the film (and likely to become a meme) — roaring “mangez le rat!” to the delight of the crowd.”
The picture, directed by Lorcan Finnegan, is said to be an homage to vintage Australian New Wave films and is receiving rave reviews.
The Hollywood Reporter declares, “There’s no point in hiring Nicolas Cage if you’re not going to let him rip with a wackadoodle, OTT performance, and he duly delivers in the sly psychological thriller The Surfer.”
The action is described thusly:
Unfolding largely on a beach and its adjacent parking lot in Western Australia, but about a man who is trapped by his own compulsions, The Surfer must be one of the most claustrophobic films that takes place almost entirely outdoors. Hold on, there are a couple of interiors: a grotty public toilet, the inside of a few cars, and a shack on the beach where local antagonists of the eponymous unnamed hero, the surfer (Cage), hang out. But the frequent zooms into the surfer’s twitchy eyes, sudden flashes back and forward, and shimmering shots that look like they’ve been filmed underwater even when on dry land all suggest the story might be unfolding in the surfer’s head as his sanity unravels.
But of course you will see and I will see and we will discuss our various feelings. Until then, let’s enjoy the trailer together.
Need more entertainment? Don’t worry. David Lee Scales and I got together for our weekly chat and discussed surf adjacency. Enjoy, rats.
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Wrong on Point Break. It was a great surf movie. It certainly wasn’t cute.
Looks out themselves. You with your comment, the editors with their articles.
Tangential (look it up) but again I’m hearing it in a thick Aussie accent. Hear them a lot out at North Steyne
When said in a nice Aussie twang has quite a ring to it
Point break was the most accurate depiction of surf culture by far. Right down to most seppos being macho assholes with a deathwish
Apocalypse Now is an excellent surfing movie about war. No cheese, just that napalm breeze and rights all day. Shoulder burn: low. Mortar attacks and 50 cal barrages: extremely high. Know before you go.🤙🏼
I read that actor Robert Duvall did not flinch what so ever during the filming. The crew etc were all jumping every time a dummy round would go off. “bring me my Yater spoon”
Apart from you, who bothered to read and reply to my comment.
That’s got you in an existential dilemma: how do I reply, which obviously signifies I do give a flying fuck, yet at the same time confirm my original point that nobody gives a flying fuck?
Just give it another bogan dismissive go, and we’ll all say it in a thick Aussie accent for authenticity
How dare you leave out John Julius masterpiece….Big Wednesday. One of the greatest surf movies there is. Period.
“there are a couple of interiors: a grotty public toilet, the inside of a few cars, and a shack “
Did they hire DR as the location scout?
He was my neighbor. Wont lie, never seen a guy ruin himself better and me appreciate it, except for Charlie Sheen. Only thing worse looking than his hangover is his hair plugs.
When I die and come back I need Francis Ford Coppola as my Uncle to make my life easy too. Proper cunt that guy is and mad respect.
Didn’t FFC allegedly fund the defence of a dodgy producer once?
Re the movie: the North Steyne locals have weaved a similar spell on me over the years, including the two Swellnet reporters, both of which I’ve lived in Manly longer then.
WindnSewerage
The movement..
You forgot ‘Big Wednesday’—-it wasn’t bad, actually, it was pretty good.
That film so sucked balls just another hollywood jews ripping of a sub culture that they have no actual understanding nor respect for.
and people around here who question Israel’s abhorrent behaviour get called anti-semitic!
It is not abhorrent behavior, it is abhorrent reaction.
Maybe you’re thinking of Gidget.
‘Big Wednesday’ was written by Dennis Aaberg.
Maybe you should watch it again and try and refresh your memory, or better yet, read the book, (if you can find it).
The book is actually pretty good, I’ve read it a couple of times.
The movie is actually pretty good.
love me some Leroy.. Still call my nephew Wax’r. He hates it but he’s a ripper none the less. As if I was calling him “Fuktard!”
Co written and directed by John Millius ( jewish). Maybe you should be the one doing a touch more watching and reading.
Why, what’s your point, are you prejudiced.
Seems Milius surfed the Bu back in the day, and other breaks and the book was based on some of his experiences also.
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I love Hollywood Jews.
racist, illiterate and stupid, well done.
Not a single racist word in my comment , I fail to see the point you are attempting to make , please highlight the racist word/s.
“hollywood jews” you obviously didn’t deem to be a racist comment. Glad you accepted illiterate and stupid, though.
Have you quite finished now.
I pulled a dead grey wale out of the boat landing at gaviota pier with a 120′ crew boat. Same pier that’s in the film that the bear shaped his boards on. Also got busted by exxon long boarding behind the same boat. Four v12 diesels, made a Four foot wake. Thirty years ago good times 🤟
looking almost as batshit fucking insane as this piece of aussie cinema gold:
https://youtu.be/Wq13ZoDWRI…
Holy fuck
well worth tracking down. absolutely bananas.
Yep, very entertaining. What did Susie Porter go on to do? She was bigged up around the time of the film: and I left shortly thereafter so NFI other than east west on SBS which I torrented – in the period when SBS did interesting stuff and wasn’t the awful scraps and bin ends and viceland that it is now. Once upon a time SBS had interesting and unusual programming (the short films were excellent) and now it’s fucking horrendous and tremendously diverse.
she was great in “Two Hands”.
The chopes trials are on. ????
YEP. looks pretty, pretty shit.
It is. Sadly, it’s crossed up Saqaurema dogshit.
More barrels today then all the writers on this website had their whole lives. True though, not many barrels.
Nic Cage looks like me at The Board Source every single time they have a “blem sale” and I miss my board. I go in there all sweaty with my huge veneers and hair plugs and yell at JP, “dude, I want my board!” JP is cool though, he usually talks me into some other board for me to perform my ill-timed check turns on mushy beach break “waves.”
We may be seeing a leaderboard change…this could slot one of Cage’s top 10 epic meltdowns.
You have to give the guy credit. Lost his ass in 2008 with the housing collapse. Over extended on real estate holdings. Instead of declaring bankruptcy he accepted every crappy movie role that came his way, and dug himself out. Commendable.
Hollywood, as they do, ripped the premise of this film from here on BG; surely you’ll remember:
https://beachgrit.com/2019/…
That was an epic rant. The yater thing – tragic. Well done.
I’m still upset about the Yater.
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they (Hollywood ripoff artists) have clearly robbed the premise of the entire film, which you may remember reading here first on BG:
https://beachgrit.com/2019/…
Le trials are on. Unfortunately some rat mangezing on the wet energy mound front.
They measure from behind?
Yeah, always measure your dick from the back of your balls.
Xox