Well Go USA imports from
Down Under on Oct. 14 DVD and Blu-ray editions of writer/director Ivan Sen’s
murder/mystery thriller, Mystery Road.
Nominated for Best
Picture at this past year’s AFI Awards (Australian Film Institute) and winner
of the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards for Best Picture, Mystery
Road delivers everything we have come to expect from well-made
Australian films.
A teenage girl — an
Aboriginal girl at that — has been murdered and left for the dingos to feed on along
the remote A2 highway that meanders through the outback of Queensland (filmed
in and around the hamlet of Winton … which is pretty much in the middle of
nowhere). Returning home after a stint
in the “big city” is detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen), a half-caste, who doesn’t
really belong to either “side,” but he is nevertheless assigned the case.
With stunning landscapes
(think: No Country For Old Men) and hostility at every turn, Swan sets
about to solve this whodunit. There will
be drugs, crime, hookers and his own police compatriots to contend with … throw
in an ex-wife (Tasma Walton) and an estranged daughter — who seems connected to
the murder — and you have all the makings of a first class crime drama.
The third act features a
shootout like none other. It’s very
Aussie; very cool!
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