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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:61
Rotten:32
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Jindabyne's disparate themes may not quite cohere, but the film features fine performances from Linney and Byrne.
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... [More]
Starring: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard
Director: Ray Lawrence
By the end of his films- this idiosyncratic style, complex plotting, and core values about intimacy produce a combination of exhaustion, well-being, and a bit of unease. At the conclusion of "Jindabyne," while Lawrence's torturous journey has given more
Scene by scene, Jindabyne has dramatic force, but it’s an awfully long slog. Carver’s smartest tactic was never outstaying his welcome.
Jindabyne is that rare film mixing suspense and melodrama, social commentary and spirituality.
Jindabyne can't contain all that the filmmakers want to throw in. Best to keep glued to the taut performance by Laura Linney as Claire, wife of one of the fishermen (Gabriel Byrne) and a woman moved to dramatic acts of atonement.
Murder isn't allowed to become a distraction. Consequently, with all its haunting moodiness, moral alarm bells and relational issues, the film isn't much more than the unexpanded short story it derives from.
What could have been a solid, noirish thriller is bogged down by excessive incidents.
Second version of Raymond Carver's story (the first was in Altman's Short Cuts) transplants the text to Australia, paying greater attention to issues of race and gender, though Ray Lawrence's approach is too detached and his pacing too measured.
There's no denying its technical bravado and the haunting power of its subject.
Director Ray Lawrence captures in Jindabyne both the intimacy of the lives of married people and the broader fabric of a community -- and the soap-bubble fragility of our perceptions of our lovers, friends and neighbors.
t’s a thoughtful, bracing drama in the mould of Lawrence’s much-decorated Lantana.
There's something dreadfully wrong when the picture shows signs of completely misunderstanding, or choosing to ignore, the dead moral centre of Carver's story. Why, then, bother to adapt it?
A 24-page short story stretched into a 123-minute film.
...generally comes off as an overwrought and flat-out silly piece of work.
A coiled and enigmatic psychodrama that cements Australian director Ray Lawrence's standing as a fine, if not prolific, filmmaker.
Top CriticTechnically excellent in every department, the film tells the story with great verve and at a well judged pace, but the strong emotional content seems to stay on the screen, without translating to the deeply moving experience we hanker for.
Jindabyne never obtains the full impact of its potentially powerful inner core.
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