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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396183964
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 02, 2007
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 32713
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Product Description:
Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. Stewart's wife Claire is the last to find out. Deeply disturbed by her husband's action, her faith in her relationship with Stewart is shaken to the core. She wants to understand and tries to make things right. In her determination to help the victim's family Claire sets herself not only against her own family and friends but also those of the dead girl. Her marriage is taken to the brink and her peaceful life with Stewart and their young son hangs in the balance. The story of a murder and a marriage. A powerful and original film about the things that haunt us.
Amazon.com:
With its subdued emotional tone and superbly subtle performances, Jindabyne is the kind of film you have to be in the right mood for. If you get onto its low-key but ultimately powerful wavelength, you'll find much to admire in this Australian adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story 'So Much Water So Close to Home.' The same story (available in the Carver collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love) was previously adapted as a segment of Robert Altman's Short Cuts, but here it's been given a decidedly indigenous spin, focusing on the emotional fallout that occurs when four men discover the half-naked body of a 19-year-old Aboriginal woman while fishing in a remote river near their home town of Jindabyne, on the border of outback country in New South Wales. Stewart (Gabriel Byrne) was the one who discovered the body on a sunny Friday afternoon, but he and his buddies didn't report their discovery until two days later, resulting in a local news scandal and deep resentments from the Aboriginal locals. Worse yet, the incident dredges up a storm of emotions in Stewart's wife, Claire (Laura Linney), who's still recovering from a marital separation and post-partum depression following the birth of their young son. Simmering guilt, familial tensions, and strained friendships threaten to tear these residents of Jindabyne apart, and director Ray Lawrence (making only his third film since 1985's Bliss and 2001's underrated Lantana) does a remarkable job of exploring mysteries of human behavior that are slowly resolved as the drama unfolds. Jindabyne is not the kind of film one watches for light entertainment--its deliberate pacing and deep-rooted themes must be appreciated with careful attention--but it's a mature and richly observant study of people in crisis, whether they're aware of it or not, or even ready to admit it. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  - "Less is More"
A quite superb job from all the actors here. Oh, the subtlety. Byrne and Linney are fantastic. The atmospheric nuances of the cinematography are perfectly synchronized for effect. An ARTIST'S movie.
Rating:  - an unusually complex and original drama
"Jindabyne" is an elegant, thought-provoking drama that uses mysticism and social commentary to tell the story of a serial killer and his impact on a community. Jindabyne is a small town in New South Wales that had to be relocated in the 1960's due to the damning of a local river. Since that time, a number of legends have sprung up around the old town that currently resides at the bottom of the newly formed lake. It's almost as if the ghosts of the past linger on to haunt those living in the present.
The trouble begins when four buddies, while on a fishing trip in a remote area of the mountains, discover the body of a murdered girl floating in a river. Rather than returning home immediately to inform the authorities of what they`ve uncovered, the men decide to continue fishing for a few more days. This sets off tremendous reverberations among both the townsfolk and their own individual families when the men finally arrive back home with their story.
"Jindabyne" throws so many disparate characters and plotlines into the mix that it could easily have become dissipated and unfocused had it fallen into less capable hands than those of writer Beatrix Christian and director Ray Lawrence. Instead, in adapting Raymond Carver's short story, "So Much Water So Close to Home," to the screen, these filmmakers have created a broad, multi-leveled drama that is not afraid to take its time in gathering the strands of its story, and which is as much a portrait of a complex, troubled ... Read More
Rating:  - Jindabyne
I bought and watched Jindabyne for two reasons. One I love Gabriel Byrne and Laura Linney, and two because it was in my recommends. I was very disappointed in the movie. It leaves too many story lines un-told. It's LONG. I kept waiting for it to pick up and get to the point. It gets to MANY points but doesn't finish them. I was bored to tears. While Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne gave great performances, even they didn't understand what the movie was about, when you listen to the after comments. I loved how the lighting was real...but I just hate hanging in the air. I guess I like more action and for things to tie in. There is post pardem depression, pregnancy, murder, selfishness, a town that is under water, a murderer who I guess gets to go free, racial tension...loads of stuff that COULD have lead to great story lines, they were just sort of stated and left going no where. I don't recommed this movie unless you like to be bored. It's moody and left me feeling yuck. I don't see any awards going to this movie anytime soon.
Rating: - RAY LAWRENCE, OPUS 3
***1/2 2006. based on a short story by Raymond Carver and directed by Ray Lawrence. Nine AFI awards nominations. Four friends find the body of a murdered girl in a river while fishing. They alert the police only two days after their discovery and so must face the reproaches of their wives and the local population. Ray Lawrence's precedent film, Lantana was a masterpiece already enameled with symbols. JINDABYNE, the last movie to date of the Australian director, doesn't depart from this stylistic approach peculiar to him. A ghost town swallowed up by a lake, characters entangled in psychological problems, children who seem to repeat René Clément's Forbidden Games - Criterion Collection and the omnipresence of the liquid element are the major themes handled by this very talented director. Recommended.
Rating:  - Needed To Peak Its Head Above The Murky Waters
Stewart Kane (Gabriel Byrne, Vanity Fair) heads out with his local Jindabyne, Australia fishing buddies for a weekend of rest, recreation, and relaxation. But when Stewart discovers an aboriginal woman's body floating face-down in a river, things appear to have turned out for the worst. The largest casualty of the weekend is the men's commonsense. They don't hike out of the ravine, and instead finish their fishing weekend with some great catches. Then they head out and report the body.
The town and the men's lives quickly turn into a mess. The local media swarms them, and accusations of aboriginal prejudices rear up from the local natives. Stewart's wife Claire (Laura Linney, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) senses the deeper meanings of what her husband and his friends did, but has to battle with it through her own mental illness.
Amidst all this chaos is the life that was this young woman who is now a media spectacle, splayed out on a morgue slab. Her murder and subsequent dumping into the water are symbolic of what lay beneath the town of Jindabyne: a division of men and women, black and white, social and outcast.
The only other people who seem to understand some of what is going on are two young kids: Stewart and Claire's son who is being led around by a half-breed Aussie who's mother was killed also just a few years before. The young girl lives with her grandparents and is trying to let go of her mother the best way she can, and the discovery of a new body seems ... Read More
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