The Water Diviner

2015 "To honour a promise. To find his sons. To make his peace."

The Water Diviner

7 | 1h52m | R | en | Drama

In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.

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7 | 1h52m | R | en | Drama , War | More Info

Released: April. 24,2015 | Released Producted By: Hopscotch Features , Fear of God Films Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.thewaterdiviner.com/

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Cast

Russell Crowe , Olga Kurylenko , Yılmaz Erdoğan

Director

Christina Norman

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Hopscotch Features , Fear of God Films

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Reviews

Elisabeth Irene From the first second I started this movie it had me on the tip of my seat for the rest of the duration of the film. So much suspense and thrill and hurt and emotions..... The battlefield scenes were so touching. Him talking about his children. The few flash forwards and the fact that he just felt things he could have never known for sure just really touched me. Now mind you, I am Aussie nor am I Turkish. I am a humble girl from Holland and even though I have loved my history classes (up to a certain extent), here they have never taught us anything about the battle of Gallipoli, just a faint story about Troy, so this was all the more interesting to me as I am just a fan of war stories - not so much a fan of war, just to be clear - and a good flash back in time to make me feel as if I was there, right in the middle of it is just everything for me. To feel every emotion they are feeling and/or must have been feeling at a certain point in, for a certain period of time....all that to come to that crappy ending! The synopsis of the ending itself was fine but it just stopped so sudden I just thought ''what in the frock is this.''I just thought the ending could have ended just a bit more subtle. Now it was just like ''okay well this is the end of the movie and you know it so.. bye bye!''That just kind of ruined it for me. Especially since it's often the ending that stays with one the longest.This still should not prevent you from thinking that this is a crappy movie, cause this is definitely a must-see. MUST. Still, crappy ending.

areatw 'The Water Diviner' is a good movie with many positives aspects - the plot has depth, it is well acted out and Russell Crowe did a reasonably good job as director. You do, however, have to be patient and make an effort to stick with this movie because, in parts, it's very slow.I also wasn't keen on the many flashbacks/flashforwards which didn't really add anything to the movie and just made the storyline harder to follow. There's nothing wrong with the plot itself but I felt it could have been executed better on screen.Overall though I thought 'The Water Diviner' was a good movie with a plot with enough depth to keep it interesting.

Robert J. Maxwell An Australian water diviner, Russell Crowe, loses three sons at Gallipoli in Turkey and after the war travels to the battlefield to retrieve their corpses. I know. It sound lugubrious -- a heavenly choir, the vanquishing of red tape by empathy, as the water diviner divines the skeletons of his sons, one by drawn-out one, and schleps them back home to Australia, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.Actually, it has plenty of color and dash and it doesn't turn out as expected. Shot in Australia and Turkey, there are some marvelous location shots as we're introduced not just to the battlefield but to Ottoman culture. A stunning shot of the interior of the blue mosque.Among the Ottoman artifacts is Olga Kurylenko. Somewhere, a religious cult should be established in her honor, its symbol her sternoclavicular notch. What a dish. Body by Bernini, neck by Modigliani. Suddenly, that line from "Dr. Strangelove" -- "toe to toe with the Russkies" -- doesn't sound like such a bad idea.The romance is subdued, as is Russell Crowe's performance. He's gained weight and lost definition since "L.A. Confidential" and his bulk now resembles that of John Wayne, a kind of massive heft that his brain orders about. He's quite professional as a director too, fond of overhead shots, but not too fond.The editor should be fired. Sometimes it was easy to get lost. There are flash forwards of whirling dervishes only you don't know they're flash forwards. The whirling dervishes are the decorous public kind, clean and dazed looking, not the Dionysian wild men of the tribal areas. I don't know how they can do it without falling down after the first few minutes.The film is more sympathetic to some of the Turkish soldiers now occupying the battlefield than it is with the British and Australian graves unit. The villains are Greeks, and there are scenes of battle resembling the perforated train sequence in "Lawrence of Arabia" and one or two echoes of "Young Churchill." The bloody combat scenes are disturbing in that they cause you to worry somewhat about just what the solution to the Middle East is.

Wendy Towers First of all the film is beautiful, full marks for cinematography. For me this is Russell Crowe's directorial debut and it shows. the film is good, but I didn't find myself empathising with his character Joshua Connor and even less with the family. Maybe Mr Crowe is just trying too hard for a big blockbuster, but as they say from small acorns and I fully expect that with his first film under the belt he will become much more adventurous. It isn't a bad start, just not great. I found myself more drawn to the Colin Firth character in The Railway Man. I look forward to his next film, Russell Crowe brings a great presence to the screen as an actor and ultimately will, no doubt do the same as a director.