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The Dry After the terrible devastation caused by last year’s bushfires, which prompted hundreds of Australians to shelter in the ocean to escape incineration and destroyed uncountable amounts of wildlife, The Dry has been released during a totally different kind of dry spell. The pandemic has provided an instructive sense of scale, of how much we are going to have to change patterns of consumption in order to overcome the climate crisis. We stopped flying, gave up commuting, and closed down many factories, all of which ended business as usual pretty much across the entire planet, far more ...
The Dry, starring Eric Bana, matches wide open spaces with uncomfortably close drama. Photograph: Roadshow Jane Harperâs best-selling novel The Dry is one of those books that feels written with a feature film adaptation in mind: a genre narrative (crime mystery-thriller) thatâs pacey, plot-driven and full of dialogue, with a central location ripe for cinematic imagery. Extensive use of flashbacks is built into its structure, and theyâre even presented in italics as if to say, âThis is where the cuts and scene changes goâ...
December 24, 2020 A still scene from Fanny and Alexander (1982) Facebook/fannyandalexander As travel plans over the festive period are scuppered by increasingly stringent lockdown regulations, let these five films regale you with Christmas stories from all around the world. 1. Joyeux Noël (2005) One of the most famous Christmas celebrations of the twentieth century took place during the first world war, when an unofficial ceasefire was declared on December 24, 1914, along the frontlines of northern Europe. French, British and German soldiers put down their weapons, emerged from their trenche...
10. A Lion Returns There’s lots of talking in writer/director Serhat Caradee’s Sydney-set family drama, with almost the entire first act consisting of a single dialogue scene in the back of a car. Jamal (Tyler De Nawi) is the black sheep of his family, to say the least, secretly returning home to Sydney’s western suburbs to visit his dying mother after joining Islamic State in Syria. The radicalised Jamal engages in long and tense debates with his kith and kin, during skilfully constructed dialogue exchanges that toss around big discussions about motivations people have for joining gro...