The discovery of a dead body by four small town Australian males on a camping and fishing expedition, and their failure to abort their trip to report it, provides the catalyst to push the entire community closer to the edge of implosion. The nuclear family, and race relations, seem as dissonant here, if not more so, than anywhere else. Top quality movie making and very thought provoking.
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THE BELIEVER (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
Danny is a young Jew AND a neo-Nazi, with a strong identity crisis. A movie about self-hatred and eventual self-realisation. "The Believer" is an immensely powerful film, terrifying and utterly mesmerising, with some very disturbing ideological baggage.
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THREE SEASONS (1999)
Certification15 Our Rating
The film follows three storylines; a few days in the life of four Vietnamese and an American tourist, Keitel, whose paths cross in a street in Saigon. Star-crossed love, survival, feelings of loss, the beauty of life and hope are all emotions engaged in this wonderful tale of young poor Vietnamese coming to terms with life. Beautiful.
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WINTER'S BONE (2010)
Certification15 Our Rating
In the rural hinterland of the Ozark Mountains, Missouri, 17-year-old Ree Dolly, in the absence of her crystal meth/crank manufacturing father, is the only effective parent for her two younger siblings and sole carer to her emotionally vacant mother. When Ree discovers dad has put their house up as bail and then disappeared she knows she must find him or the family will be turned out into a bitter wilderness in which they cannot hope to survive. Her close knit, secretive and, often, brutally har
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