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Jindabyne

Australia

2006

123 Min
Color
2.35:1
Aboriginal, Irish, English
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DIR Ray Lawrence

PROD Catherine Jarman

SCR Raymond Carver, Beatrix Christian

DP David Williamson

CAST Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Chris Haywood, Deborra-Lee Furness, Tatea Reilly

ED Karl Sodersten

MUSIC Paul Kelly, Dan Luscombe

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), San Francisco (World Cinema), Stockholm (Competition)

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In the Australian town of Jindabyne, the former race champion Stewart Kane works in a gas station with his partners and friends Carl, Rocco and Billy. His impassionate marriage with the unstable Claire has an unresolved issue – Claire left him when their son Tom was born. The great passion of Stewart is fishing and he organizes a weekend fishing trip in a remote river with his three great friends. On Friday afternoon they park the car, hike and make camp. While fishing, Stewart finds the naked dead body of an aboriginal young woman floating on the cold water. Stewart ties the leg of the woman to an arbor and they spend the weekend fishing. On Sunday afternoon, they return to the parking area and report their finding to the police. When the press releases the information, their public and private lives are deeply affected and Claire questions Stewart’s attitude while trying to help and apologizes to the family of the dead aborigine. –IMDb

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theladyassassin

23May10

"an elderly man riddled with racial hatred, killed Susan ..." While the short story might have made that a clear point, this film did not- the killer was simply a man who would kill any woman, given the opportunity

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david

31Jan09

Great Flick

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By jaredmo​barak on November 26, 2008

Guilt and how it affects the lives of those it surrounds seems to be a big factor in the writings of Raymond Carver. A few of his short stories were interweaved together a while back by Robert Altman…  read review

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