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Bookmark this pageIn the Winter Dark (1998)
Director: James Bogle
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From Time Out Film Guide
Spectres of the past and present haunt this chilly, enigmatic vision of isolated life in the Australian outback. Farming couple Horace and Ida (Barrett and Blethyn) live out their barren years in an uneasy, unspoken truce over a lost young daughter, their only distant company now a neighbouring grizzled retiree and a newly single mother-to-be. The bloody visitations of an unknown predatory animal bring the four together spatially - and send them flying apart. The bleak, pregnant ambience is handled effectively, but there's a mute hysteria at the heart of the marriage, which is hardly clarified by a confusion of flashbacks. It's hard to follow a narrator who's gone barking mad. (From a novel by Tim Winton.Author: NB
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- Marty Pekar said...
- Posted on Mar 08 2008 23:50 Chilling and enigmatic. The movie grabs you and doesn't let go. Ultimately it become a treatise on terrifying aloneness.
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Cast & crew
Director: James Bogle
Producer: Rosemary Blight
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Ray Barrett, Richard Roxburgh, Miranda Otto full cast
Duration: 92 mins
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