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Jindabyne (2007)

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Reviews Counted:93

Fresh:61

Rotten:32

Average Rating:6.5/10

Consensus: Jindabyne's disparate themes may not quite cohere, but the film features fine performances from Linney and Byrne.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for disturbing images, language and some nudity.

Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Apr 27, 2007 Limited

Box Office: $224,114

Synopsis: On an annual fishing trip, in isolated high country, Stewart, Carl, Rocco and Billy ('the Kid') find a girl's body in the river. It's too late in the day for them to hike back to the road and... On an annual fishing trip, in isolated high country, Stewart, Carl, Rocco and Billy ('the Kid') find a girl's body in the river. It's too late in the day for them to hike back to the road and report their tragic find. The next morning, instead of making the long trek back, they spend the day fishing. Their decision to stay on at the river is a little mysterious — almost as if the place itself is exerting some kind of magic over them. When the men finally return home to Jindabyne, and report finding the body, all hell breaks loose. Their wives can't understand how they could have gone fishing with the dead girl right there in the water — she needed their help. The men are confused — the girl was already dead, there was nothing they could do for her. Stewart's wife Claire is the last to know. As details filter out, and Stewart resists talking about what has happened, she is unnerved. There is a callousness about all of this which disturbs her deeply. Stewart is not convinced that he has done anything wrong. Claire's faith in her relationship with her husband is shaken to the core. The fishermen, their wives and their children are suddenly haunted by their own bad spirits. As public opinion builds against the actions of the men, their certainty about themselves and the decision they made at the river is challenged. They cannot undo what they have done. Only Claire understands that something fundamental is not being addressed. She wants to understand and tries to make things right. In her determination 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. --© Sony Pictures Classics [More]

Starring: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard

Starring: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard, Leah Purcell, Stelios Yiakmis, Alice Garner, Simon Stone, Eva Lazarro, Sean Rees-Wemyss, Tatea Reilly, Betty Lucas, Chris Haywood

Director: Ray Lawrence

Director: Ray Lawrence
Screenwriter: Beatrix Christian
Story: Raymond Carver
Producer: Catherine Jarman
Composer: Paul Kelly, Dan Luscombe
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

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Only the third feature film Lawrence has directed since the surreal black comedy cult favorite Bliss (1985), Jindabyne marks yet another triumph for the director.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
04/27/07
Timothy Knight
Timothy Knight
Reel.com

Gabriel Byrne is the fisherman who won't interrupt his trip; Laura Lin ney is the wife who finds his actions hard and, finally, horrifying to comprehend. And for the most part it works.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
04/27/07
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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The film is two plodding hours of people abusing themselves, their livers, a corpse, each other and even small animals. Most abused of all is the audience.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
04/27/07
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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Linney, in particular, is heartbreaking.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
04/27/07
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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We live on the fault line along with these characters, and it is an experience that is not easy to shake off.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
04/27/07
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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Most of the new ideas grow naturally enough out of the original material. But they almost invariably amplify Carver's bleak worldview, and in a film that runs for more than two hours, that adds up to an oppressive sit.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
04/27/07
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

A sobering and serious Australian movie that touches the deep places in us that are haunted and colored by love, loss, community, and grief.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
04/27/07
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Aussie filmmaker Ray Lawrence's debt to Robert Altman in his previous Lantana is made explicit in his new film Jindabyne.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
04/27/07
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
Slant Magazine

It’s not just that the clean, efficient lines of Carver’s story are blurred and tangled. The real flaw is that the movie’s best features -- the aching clarity of its central performances - threaten to be lost in a wilderness of metaphor and mystification.

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04/27/07
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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powerful, unsettling

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
04/26/07
Chris Barsanti
Chris Barsanti
Filmcritic.com

Jindabyne started with a bad idea and the finished film doesn't do well by it, despite the presence of Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne and several excellent Australian actors.

Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | comment Comment
04/26/07
Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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Such is the inherent power of the Carver material that Jindabyne rises above its polemics.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
04/26/07
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor

For all its roiling tensions, Jindabyne is an oddly antiseptic, even repressed, experience.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
04/26/07
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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Jindabyne wears its class politics lightly, weaving them into a ghost story about the intimate connection between how we treat our living and our dead that will hover around your shoulders long after you leave the theater.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
04/26/07
Ella Taylor
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly

Jindabyne requires patience, but the payoff is rewarding.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
04/25/07
Rex Reed
Rex Reed
New York Observer
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The result is a mature and challenging motion picture, and something that will stick with viewers after the screen has gone dark.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
04/24/07
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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A soberly, if sluggishly, crafted movie in which the bitterness never stops.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
04/24/07
J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
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The subplot is the basic difference between men and women, how they handle relationships, and how they handle crises. Probably not a film for everyone, but I enjoyed it.

Full Review Source: tonymedley.com | comment Comment
04/24/07
Tony Medley
Tony Medley
tonymedley.com

Could have been tightened up and shortened to be a much stronger film, and it's surprisingly unsatisfying as a whole.

Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | comment Comment
04/24/07
Edward Douglas
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net

By the end of his films- this idiosyncratic style, complex plotting, and core values about intimacy produce a combination of exhaustion, well-being, and a bit of unease. At the conclusion of "Jindabyne," while Lawrence's torturous journey has given more

Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | comment Comment
04/23/07
Harry Chotiner
Harry Chotiner
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