Australian novels adapted into films: watch list
Fom 'The Dry' to 'Schindler's List', there's no shortage of Australian novels being translated to the big screen.
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Fom 'The Dry' to 'Schindler's List', there's no shortage of Australian novels being translated to the big screen.
From The Dry to Schindler's List, there's no shortage of Australian novels being translated to the big screen.
From salacious and savage to escapist and evocative, here are the page-turners Guardian Australia writers are whipping through on break
The Light Between Oceans (M, 133 mins) Directed by Derek Cianfrance ★★★½ After witnessing the horrors of the First World War first hand, Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) is just looking to get away from things for a little while. That means that a relief job as a lighthouse keeper on the remote Western Australian island of Janus Rock seems like a perfect fit. But Tom hadn't counted on meeting mainlander Isabela Graysmark (Alicia Vikander). Head strong and determined, she dismisses his concerns that everything he has touched over the past few years has faded away and t...