More years after the feeling of a skin film festival at the midnight night session, Nicolas Cage arrives on your screens in a paranoid thriller as funny as they bodily.
Even if this film unfortunately does not benefit from the internal exit of the cinema, it is finally available in France on the paramount+platform. The opportunity to discover it and also find the deceased Julian McMahon in one of his last roles.
Nicolas cage in paranoid thriller
After the Nameout name, Vivarium and NOOKEOBO EXFECT, Lorcan Findgan presented his fourth intriguing feature film. The Irish director changes his or her scenery and leads us to Australia for a bodily experience.
In Surfer, Nicolas Cage depicts a man who returns to the idyllic coast of his childhood with his son for surfing. Their escape becomes a nightmare when a gang of local surfaces, led by a kind of guru, named Scali, prohibits them to enter the ocean.
Humilized and threatened, his father will have to fight to gain respect for his territory and his son. In the staggering atmosphere of this coast, the struggle that leads to the heart of madness.
Lorcan Finnegan and its script by Thomas Martin have been inspired by paranoid thrillers since the 70s, but also “ Movies from New Australian Wave like Wake in Fright, Long weekends -week, walkabout and picnic at hanging rock, all these films “.
Surfer drives us into a strange dream that explores various topics such as masculinity, materialism and originality, as terrible as funny in the atmosphere. And Nicolas Cage was best for all this:
“It was really necessary for the character” maximum “character to be throughout the movie.
What Nika does brilliantly. He can do this, he can give you drama, action, and he can also give you a comedy. I read the script in scenes. And fortunately, he saw my movies and he said yes. He is a big movie buffet and the collaboration was excellent. “I said to myself,” Oh, I see it all. “
Julian Macmone’s one of the last roles
In front of Nicolas Cage, it was Julian McMon, who portrays the Surfers gang leader. A kind of psychedelic guru, this character is a difficult antagonist who the actor loved to play.
“It was probably despite the fact that I liked something unique that I wanted to play with, besides working with Nicolas Cage and Lorcan Finland. There were a few days when I left for filming, saying,” I have no idea what I meant or what I mean.
But I was very sorry, I spent a lot of time, but I really didn’t know how it was in common. I decided to let go and allow something to be creative every day. “
This is one of the last roles of Julian McMahon that left us in July 2025. The Australian actress was particularly famous for its roles on a small screen for charmed, nip/tuck and FBI. He also played fantastic four in the cinema.
Interview at the Mugane Choquet Cannes Festival in 2024.
The film “Surfer” is available at Paramount+ since September 1.
Source: Allocine
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