Jindabyne - Somewhere in Australia

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Movie
German title Jindabyne - Somewhere in Australia
Original title Jindabyne
Country of production Australia
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 123 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Ray Lawrence
script Beatrix Christian
production Catherine Jarman
music Paul Kelly ,
Dan Luscombe
camera David Williamson
cut Karl Sodersten
occupation

Jindabyne - Somewhere in Australia is an Australian film drama from the year 2006 . Directed by Ray Lawrence , the screenplay was written by Beatrix Christian based on the short story So Much Water So Close to Home by Raymond Carver .

action

The Irish-born petrol station tenant Stewart Kane lives with his mentally unstable wife Claire and their little son Tom in the sleepy town of Jindabyne with 1670 inhabitants in the middle of the barren landscape of the Australian state of New South Wales . The former, historical site had to give way to a construction project for energy generation that has now been completed, was flooded and today forms a large reservoir . For cost reasons, the old buildings were not demolished at the time, but flooded while the community was relocated to higher ground.

In the place, the pregnant Claire suffers from harmless constant nausea. A local electrician, on the other hand, pursues his downright lust for murder and has been killing women for years, seemingly indiscriminately and indiscriminately, like 19-year-old Susan O'Connor.

When Stewart and his three friends Carl, Rocco and Billy go on their annual weekend trip to a remote mountain region of a national park to escape from everyday family life and relax, the group discovers the body of a young Aboriginal woman in the river. In order not to endanger your well-deserved excursion or to interrupt it, for the sake of convenience it is decided not to inform the police immediately about the find. Instead, one continues the excursion and prefers to enjoy the sport of fishing.

Upon their return, they report to the authorities that the lifeless body has been found, but met with outrage and rejection because of the delay in reporting. Their scandalous behavior arouses public interest, leads to controversy and exposes long-forgotten scars and plunges those involved into serious relationship crises. The pregnant Claire is particularly disgusted by Stewart's behavior, from which she is becoming more and more estranged, so that she can no longer return to normal marital life. She even toyed with the idea of ​​aborting her unborn child, whom Stewart knows nothing about, because of irreconcilable differences. She restlessly contacts the grieving family of the murdered Susan and collects money as a penance for the traditional burial of the murdered.

In her excessive zeal for justice, Claire leaves her husband and attends the festivities for Susan's cremation, at which Susan's murderer, the aging Gregory, is also present. The remorseful Stewart joins the mourners, but his condolences are rejected by the bitter father of the dead. Still, Stewart attends the strange ceremony. On this occasion he asks his mate to come back to him in the common house. Without a word, the director ends the film with a scene of the serial killer who kills a wasp-like insect lying in wait for new female victims in Somewhere in Australia.

Reviews

James Berardinelli described the film on ReelViews as "ripe" and "demanding". The film not only addresses the “broken” family suffering from a lack of communication, but also the racial problems between the Aborigines and the white inhabitants of the country. The director turns it into a thriller that draws the audience in; Lawrence exaggerated, however.

Robert Koehler wrote in the magazine Variety on May 24, 2006 that the film was not exhausting its potential ("never obtains the full impact of its potentially powerful inner core"). It is worse than the director's earlier film Lantana . However, the main actors should grab the audience's attention. The landscapes become one of the characters, which follows the Australian film tradition.

Awards

The film was nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award in nine categories in 2006 : Best Picture , for Direction, for leading roles by Gabriel Byrne and Laura Linney, for Deborra-Lee Furness, for the screenplay, the cinematography, the music and the tone. Ray Lawrence, Beatrix Christian, Deborra-Lee Furness and David Williamson won the 2006 Film Critics Circle of Australia Award , for which Laura Linney, John Howard, the film for best film and the film music were also nominated. Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Ray Lawrence and David Williamson were nominated for the Australian IF Award in 2006.

Ray Lawrence won the FIPRESCI Prize of the Stockholm International Film Festival in 2006 for his “ deeply structured and poetic portrayal of many faces in Australia ” ; Beatrix Christian won another festival award for the script. Laura Linney and the music composers won prizes from the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid in 2006, while Ray Lawrence was nominated for the Golden Ear Prize of this festival. Ray Lawrence won a special jury award in 2007 at the Cognac Festival du Film Policier .

backgrounds

The film was in Jindabyne ( New South Wales turned). It had its world premiere on May 23, 2006 at the Cannes International Film Festival . On September 13, 2006, it was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival ; it has also been shown at numerous other film festivals. The film opened in Australian theaters on July 20, 2006 and in selected US theaters on April 27, 2007; in the US, he played about 400,000 US dollars one. The German theatrical release followed on November 1, 2007.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Film review by James Berardinelli , accessed October 18, 2007
  2. ^ Film review by Robert Koehler , accessed on October 18, 2007
  3. ↑ Filming locations for Jindabyne , accessed October 18, 2007
  4. ↑ Jindabyne premiere dates , accessed July 1, 2008
  5. ↑ Box office / business for Jindabyne , accessed October 18, 2007