Jindabyne (2006)
Country: AUS
Technical: col/scope 124m
Director: Ray Lawrence
Cast: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard
Synopsis:
In the wild New South Wales outback a serial killer strikes. That weekend four local men go on a fishing trip, discover the body, but do nothing about it until their return home.
Review:
An opening out of the Raymond Carver story already dealt with in Altman's Short Cuts, this trips relatively lightly over the ghoulish events of the trip and focuses instead on the consequences to the various elements of the community, chiefly the now newly pregnant wife of one of the men. Another, less relevant strand involves her son and a slightly unstable girl attached to one of the other couples. The domestic angle works moderately well until it is resolved somewhat patly with the wife's determined attempts to reconcile herself with the aboriginal relatives of the deceased girl; an unresolved brush with the killer merely increases the irritation. Otherwise, there is a nicely implicit theme about the uprooting and transplantation of communities (this one having been moved for a hydroelectric scheme) leading to a 'loss of community', hence the neglect shown by the men, though not, presumably, the atavistic killing itself.
Country: AUS
Technical: col/scope 124m
Director: Ray Lawrence
Cast: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard
Synopsis:
In the wild New South Wales outback a serial killer strikes. That weekend four local men go on a fishing trip, discover the body, but do nothing about it until their return home.
Review:
An opening out of the Raymond Carver story already dealt with in Altman's Short Cuts, this trips relatively lightly over the ghoulish events of the trip and focuses instead on the consequences to the various elements of the community, chiefly the now newly pregnant wife of one of the men. Another, less relevant strand involves her son and a slightly unstable girl attached to one of the other couples. The domestic angle works moderately well until it is resolved somewhat patly with the wife's determined attempts to reconcile herself with the aboriginal relatives of the deceased girl; an unresolved brush with the killer merely increases the irritation. Otherwise, there is a nicely implicit theme about the uprooting and transplantation of communities (this one having been moved for a hydroelectric scheme) leading to a 'loss of community', hence the neglect shown by the men, though not, presumably, the atavistic killing itself.
Country: AUS
Technical: col/scope 124m
Director: Ray Lawrence
Cast: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard
Synopsis:
In the wild New South Wales outback a serial killer strikes. That weekend four local men go on a fishing trip, discover the body, but do nothing about it until their return home.
Review:
An opening out of the Raymond Carver story already dealt with in Altman's Short Cuts, this trips relatively lightly over the ghoulish events of the trip and focuses instead on the consequences to the various elements of the community, chiefly the now newly pregnant wife of one of the men. Another, less relevant strand involves her son and a slightly unstable girl attached to one of the other couples. The domestic angle works moderately well until it is resolved somewhat patly with the wife's determined attempts to reconcile herself with the aboriginal relatives of the deceased girl; an unresolved brush with the killer merely increases the irritation. Otherwise, there is a nicely implicit theme about the uprooting and transplantation of communities (this one having been moved for a hydroelectric scheme) leading to a 'loss of community', hence the neglect shown by the men, though not, presumably, the atavistic killing itself.