Review of Jindabyne (2006) by Lauri L — 13 Nov 2008
This is not a complete movie or script. The basic story is the same as in Raymond Carvers short story and one side story on Robert Altmans film "Short Cuts". This time there is background story of Gabriel Byrnes characters "Stewart" relationship with Laura Linneys "Claire" and there is the whole story of aborginals of Australia and prejudices against them.
There is also story of Stewarts and Lauras son and a little bit of close social circle and how they deal. There is also story of the person who kills other person in the beginning and how this affects all.
This all is not succesfully worked out in a movie. The movie is a little bit of everything but fails to show any new revalation since the short cut story or other films before. Everything is hasty and touched upon but not deep enough.
Even it is two hours in length director or scriptwriter never gets deep enough inside the psyche of the characters or the richness of background stories. The soundtrack works in same manner: great songs from time to time that are just hastily mixed down before any real impact.
Couple of excellent scenes but otherwise this just falls short.
This review of Jindabyne (2006) was written by Lauri L on 13 Nov 2008.
Jindabyne has generally received mixed reviews.
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