Lille, France — An aboriginal boy disappears without an initial trace from his pick-up van on a cattle ranch in North-West Australia. The local police sergeant, Emma James (Judy Davis), calls in a detective, the brusque Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen), to investigate.
As Swan drives to meet the local ranch owner, the camera shoots his car from way up high, the desert taking on the arresting colors – pink, white, a few seemingly-doodled black lines – of an abstract painting.
The multiple establishing shots of the local town, with a large aboriginal community, reveal a singular world unknown to most viewers. They also hint at a larger point: the reason for the disappearance seems related to a a bigger social picture. Swan, already the lead character of two highly admired feature films from Ivan Sen, both times played by Pedersen, begins to peel away at the secrets, crimes and miscarriage of justice in...
As Swan drives to meet the local ranch owner, the camera shoots his car from way up high, the desert taking on the arresting colors – pink, white, a few seemingly-doodled black lines – of an abstract painting.
The multiple establishing shots of the local town, with a large aboriginal community, reveal a singular world unknown to most viewers. They also hint at a larger point: the reason for the disappearance seems related to a a bigger social picture. Swan, already the lead character of two highly admired feature films from Ivan Sen, both times played by Pedersen, begins to peel away at the secrets, crimes and miscarriage of justice in...
- 5/2/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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