Impressively directed, thoroughly engaging drama with terrific performances and a superb script. This is one of the best films of the year.
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06/19/07
Jindabyne (2007)
66 %
Reviews Counted: 91 Fresh: 60 Rotten:31 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Consensus:
Jindabyne's disparate themes may not quite cohere, but the film features fine performances from Linney and Byrne.
Rated: 15
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Theatrical Release: 25-05-2007
Synopsis: On an annual fishing trip, in isolated high country, Stewart, Carl, Rocco and Billy ('the Kid') find a girl's body in the river. It's too late in the day for them to hike back to the road and report their tragic find. The next morning, instead of making the long trek back, they spend the day fishing.... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard, Leah Purcell
Director: Ray Lawrence
Screenwriter: Beatrix Christian
Story: Raymond Carver
Producer: Catherine Jarman
Composer: Paul Kelly, Dan Luscombe
Screenwriter: Beatrix Christian
Story: Raymond Carver
Producer: Catherine Jarman
Composer: Paul Kelly, Dan Luscombe
Reviews
Apart from a contrived ending, Jindabyne comes as close as can be to a perfect drama.
06/12/07
Top Critic
The movie is beautifully shot, and succeeds in being deeply disturbing and mysterious, with richly achieved nuances of characterisation. I have seen it two or three times now, and each time it gets better.
06/02/07
Top Critic
A work of ambition and depth. Like Lantana, it is immaculately acted and Linney and Byrne are at their considerable best.
06/02/07
This kind of maturity and intelligence is all too infrequent in mainstream cinema -- let’s hope it’s not another six years until [director] Lawrence’s next film.
06/02/07
Top Critic
A great idea is weighed down by an over-egged screenplay, but the setting and cast bring out its best.
05/25/07
Top Critic
The seamless overall blend of involving domestic turmoil and haunted national self-questioning is quite some achievement.
05/24/07
Top Critic
[Director] Lawrence certainly knows how to bait his audience with intriguing characters.
05/15/07
Top Critic
Despite a glacial exterior, this fine film holds us in its relentless grip.
03/17/07
Less a moral dilemma than a meditation on the differences between men and women in matters of social decorum.
11/17/07
While it's most certainly not light viewing, and it's entirely devoid of 'Hollywood moments', this is a fine, intelligent, troubling film.
10/03/07
A whole lot of padding turns a fine enough story into a dour, wordy slog.
09/14/07
The film is novelistic in its nuance, in the patience of its storytelling and in the complexity of its mostly unhappy characters.
08/03/07
There is some great acting here, and some scenes do have an undercurrent of elemental power in them that tugs at your ankles. But the film never pulls you in.
07/20/07
"I do just what I want to do/ I want everything and I want you, too/I wish I could explain to you/But the things men without women do/You just don't understand."
06/29/07
The filmmakers do not feel the need to fill in every single blank for viewers by the time the credits roll. Just as in reality, these characters' problems are not going to be solved with the wave of a magic wand; there are no short cuts to happiness.
06/22/07
The movie's remaining revelations build slowly into a set of surprisingly powerful emotional beats.
06/20/07
For all the pains it takes to establish mood and character, Jindabyne hides under its own uneasy surfaces; it never allows enough sense of what this community really is, of what’s to be grieved when it comes apart.
06/18/07
Jindabyne is not about just one murder but about the death by a thousand cuts that happens in its aftermath.
06/14/07
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