Dirt Music

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Dirt Music

2019

1h 45m

Romance

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A woman falls in love with a mysterious loner who's haunted by a tragic accident from the past.

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Critics Consensus

As beautifully filmed as it is emotionally hollow, Dirt Music goes digging for romance but only buries the audience in mounds of melodrama.

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Linda Marric

The Jewish Chronicle

07/15/2021

2/5

Risibly far-fetched, contrived and unoriginal.

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Stephen Romei

The Australian

10/07/2020

2/5

He's not an impossible author to film, but a challenging one to translate from page to screen.

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Sandra Hall

Sydney Morning Herald

10/07/2020

3/5

While it plays out against the glories of the Dampier Peninsula, the splendors of the backdrop can't make up for the fact events in the foreground are failing to make sense.

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Cris Kennedy

The Canberra Times (Australia)

08/17/2022

4/5

Garrett Hedlund looks like a fourth Hemsworth, sun-bleached hair and dreamy eyes. He has the harder role, skirting between misery and a deeper layer of misery.

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Dan Bayer

Next Best Picture

05/13/2022

3/10

A beautiful bore.

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Audrey Fox

JumpCut Online

08/28/2021

Dirt Music has few pleasures to recommend it, and even with a relatively lean running time of an hour and 45 minutes, it limps to an unexciting conclusion with the pace of an injured snail.

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Marshall H.

@Hewgonot Mar 6

Was really glad for a happy ending . Maybe dragged towards the end but her almost husband, and new love portrayed their feelings of loss and love extremely well . Really well done if you have not been through anything like this of course you’d flunk it.

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Laura H

@RT47170333 12/04/2024

Looks beautiful. I've not read the book but the story unfolds nicely. the ending is implausible and i found it frustrating and the final scenes dragged. The female lead character isn't likeable and her character doesn't develop or grow, unlike some of the others. Which left me thinking what was the point.

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06/06/2021

The acting is wooden and the plot garbled, losing much of the nuance of the book

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02/06/2021

Slow, dull and a real shame given the cast.

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farah r

@Farah 01/05/2021

It's beautifully shot but ultimately dull and uninteresting. The story isn't deep or impactful in any way and none of the characters grow by the end. Not sure what the point of this film was.

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10/26/2020

Faithful and beautiful adaptation of Tim Winton's emotional novel, excellent performances by all three main characters and just a joy to watch. Gripping from the first scene. No guns violence or special effects, a film about love loss and families. An Australian classic.

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Synopsis

A woman falls in love with a mysterious loner who's haunted by a tragic accident from the past.

Director: Gregor Jordan
Producer: Finola Dwyer, Angie Fielder, Amanda Posey, Polly Staniford
Screenwriter: Jack Thorne
Production Co: Pelgo Films, Wildgaze Films, Aquarius Films, Film4
Genre: Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 17, 2020
Runtime: 1h 45m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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