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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Director:
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Ray Lawrence
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Actors:
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Chris Haywood,
John Howard,
Deborra-Lee Furness,
Simon Stone,
Tatea Reilly,
Sean Rees-Wemyss,
Eva Lazzaro,
Maya Daniels,
Bob Baines,
Stelios Yiakmis,
Victoria Allen,
Leah Purcell,
Laura Linney,
Gabriel Byrne,
Max Cullen
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Duration:
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119 min.
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Rating:
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(6.4/10)117.5
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Plot Summary:
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Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the committee of a murdered young lady in the river. Rather than recompense to the town immediately, they last fishing and report their gruesome find days later. Stewart's wife Claire is the model to descry out. Entirely off the deep end by her mate's performance, her obedience in her relationship with Stewart is shaken to the core. She wants to understand and tries to make things just. In her ascertainment to help the victim's house Clair... e sets herself not barely against her own genus and friends but also those of the dead girl. Her marriage is bewitched to the rim and her peaceful life with Stewart and their young son hangs in the make up for. The facts of a carnage and a marriage - a film over approximately the things that haunt us.
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A film about prejudice
A telling film in many ways. As the husband of an Australian 'sheila', I know Australia quite well - tho I must say I haven't spent any significant time in a place like Jindabyne. The film portrays some immediately recognisable Australian dynamics.
Aborigines feature quite heavily in this film. It doesn't quite capture their spirit or their reputation - tho it comes closer than any other film I have seen. The headline plot revolves around whether the four white weekenders are racist for not immediately reporting their discovery of a dead Aborigine woman in their remote fishing river. The implication is that if they had found an Aborigine man, or a non-Aborigine, or heaven-forbid a non-Aborigine man, then they'd have reacted differently.
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dripping with atmosphere...
...and the atmosphere is a brooding, dark and menacing one set against a background of multlayered human dysfunction, social and domestic. So not exactly a feelgood movie. Having said that the film has tremendous realism -some excellently awkward short, bleak takes that portray the subtle nuances of humans relating badly and there is brilliant character development of the various flawed and damaged human beings as the plot unfolds. Many rather unflattering aspects of Australian culture and society are eloquently and sympathetically captured -certainly dispelling any rose tinted illusions one might have about the continent. First rate acting and very satisfying overall shape to the plot. Classy. Well crafted. Watch it.
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