Tracks (2013)

In 1977 Robyn Davidson walked 1,700 miles from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean with four camels and her dog, Diggity, and Mia Wasikowska plays her as someone walking away from people as much as toward the sea. Adam Driver is the National Geographic photographer whose visits she tolerates rather than welcomes. John Curran lets the desert do most of the talking, which makes this the purest solitude film on the list. Some viewers find its long middle stretches repetitive; anyone who has walked for weeks will recognize that as the point.