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Title

jindabyne - Comments

Released

2006

Production Year

2006

Director

Ray Lawrence

Countries of Production

Australia, United States

Comments

Jindabyne is an Australian drama directed by Ray Lawrence and an adaptation of Raymond Carver's play "so much water so close to home". Jindabyne was inspired by the play because it coincided with Lawrence's dramatic, emotional and reality style genres. The setting for his methods too, were appropriate along with the characters, for Lawrence preferred a one take shoot, with no use of make up or natual light, in order to truly capture the real world through the lens. Canadian actress, Laura Linney, who plays a leading role was ideal for this film, for she had a lot of experience with one take shoots.

Despite a lengthy absence from film and only three in total over 27 years as a director, Ray Lawrence was proactive and committed to his films, having read the play and story adaptations and planning his structure and time years before making them into films. His combination of emotion and landscape, and the pathetic fallacy in his work makes his films so real and personal to the audience, as Lawrence allows them to relate and feel what the characters are dealing with. The sadistic yet thrilling events that transpire in Jindabyne, along with a chilling sense of foreboding in each scene sums up the masterpiece of Lawrence's work and credits him as one of Australia's greatest film directors. Despite a success and a failure at the Cannes film festival, his films still uphold many others that contended but his notoriety in media is in fact the amalgamation of his history as a commercial director and a film director.

Synopsis

The real story behind Jindabyne - http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/movies/27jind.html

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