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List Price: $19.94 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.95 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2006 DVD Release : 02 October, 2007 |
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Jindabyne description With its subdued emotional tone and superbly subtle performances, Jindabyne is the kind of film you have to be in the right mood for. If you get onto its low-key but ultimately powerful wavelength, you'll find much to admire in this Australian adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story "So Much Water So Close to Home." The same story (available in the Carver collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love) was previously adapted as a segment of Robert Altman's Short Cuts, but here it's been given a decidedly indigenous spin, focusing on the emotional fallout that occurs when four men discover the half-naked body of a 19-year-old Aboriginal woman while fishing in a remote river near their home town of Jindabyne, on the border of outback country in New South Wales. Stewart (Gabriel Byrne) was the one who discovered the body on a sunny Friday afternoon, but he and his buddies didn't report their discovery until two days later, resulting in a local news scandal and deep resentments from the Aboriginal locals. Worse yet, the incident dredges up a storm of emotions in Stewart's wife, Claire (Laura Linney), who's still recovering from a marital separation and post-partum depression following the birth of their young son. Simmering guilt, familial tensions, and strained friendships threaten to tear these residents of Jindabyne apart, and director Ray Lawrence (making only his third film since 1985's Bliss and 2001's underrated Lantana) does a remarkable job of exploring mysteries of human behavior that are slowly resolved as the drama unfolds. Jindabyne is not the kind of film one watches for light entertainment--its deliberate pacing and deep-rooted themes must be appreciated with careful attention--but it's a mature and richly observant study of people in crisis, whether they're aware of it or not, or even ready to admit it. --Jeff Shannon |
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| Jindabyne is a somber, thought-provoking movie. The movie begins on a disturbing and creepy note, a middle-aged man sits in his big truck in the middle of the Australian bush watching through his binoculars, and waiting...soon enough a young female driver passes by and the scene is set for a tragedy.
The drama continues with four friends planning a fishing trip. There's Stewart [Gabriel Byrne] whose rocky marriage to Claire[Laura Linney] is haunted by something she did in the past that affects his trust and affection for her. When he goes off with his friends, Claire is left feeling resentful of him, but things get worse upon the guys' return, when it is discovered that they found a murdered woman's body and instead of reporting it immediately, decided to continue fishing for a day and a half before bringing the body back with them. Everyone is aghast, and things are also exacerbated by the fact that the young woman belonged to the local Aboriginal tribe, and there's a strong sense of injustice and racism. Above all ,the incident has a tremendous impact on Claire and Stewart's marriage. She is repulsed by his callousness, and takes pains to 'atone' for him - going to church, trying to visit the deceased woman's family, collecting donations for the funeral etc, all of which prove futile. The story begs lots of questions - why is Claire such a tormented soul? What do the living really owe the dead [as Stewart says, "She was dead"]? Was it really racism or a mere sense of apathy that prompted the four men to act the way they did? Can the four men ever redeem themselves, and is there anything to redeem in the first place? This is a very unsettling movie, and definitely an emotionally wrenching drama. Laura Linney's performance as Claire deserves special mention. She seems to have made a carrer out of portraying emotionally distraught women [as in The Squid and the Whale, and also in You Can Count on Me]. Gabriel Byrne's Stewart is also very credibly done. There are secondary performances that are also strong, such as the middle-aged couple who try to parent a motherless granddaughter who is herself a troubled soul, Stewart's meddlesome mother [Betty Lucas] etc. The movie also touches on the issue of serial killing. The killer in the movie makes some very startling appearances, when you least expect it, blending into the community, yet very alone and methodical as he goes about his 'work'. All in all, this is a slowly-paced, simmering human drama that raises difficult issues. |
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