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Drama. Starring Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne. Directed by Ray Lawrence. (R. 123 minutes) film clip below the page


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"Jindabyne" was directed by Ray Lawrence and bears a strong family resemblance to his previous film, "Lantana," despite the fact that they had different screenwriters. Both are somber films that trace the ripple effect of an act of violence - namely the havoc the incident creates within a shaky middle-class marriage. Both films are intelligent, superbly acted and finely observed, but "Jindabyne" suffers from too many extraneous elements and from a story that doesn't land with enough force or purpose.
Jindabyn clip Gabriel Byrne and Laura Linney battle middle-aged angst in "Jindabyne." 
Sony Pictures Classics photo by Matt Nettheim

by  Mick LaSalle found at sfgate.com Friday, May 11, 2007

It takes place in Camberra, Australia, where an Irish immigrant, Stewart (Byrne) and his emotionally fragile American wife, Claire (Laura Linney), live in a state of middle-aged angst. He's numb and frustrated from his work at a service station, and she's wan and stupefied, going through life with a Peggy Lee-like sense of "Is that all there is?" There's only one source for fun, at least for the Stewart and his friends: Every year a half dozen or so of the fellows in town get together for a weekend fishing trip, and the director does a good job of conveying the importance of the trip in their lives. It's their time to be free, to be men in nature, the one time in the whole calendar not to be frustrated, beaten down or punching a clock.

The trip, however, does not go as planned, because on their first day - after a daylong hike to the lake - Stewart finds the dead body of a young woman, who clearly has been murdered. The men are horrified, but it's too late to hike back. However, the next day, instead of curtailing the trip, the men proceed with their holiday and don't report the body until the next day, almost 48 hours after discovering it.

This presents a fascinating situation. The police are disgusted with the men. The family of the victim regards them as almost akin to the murderer (who is at large). The press makes them into villains, and the men's wives - especially Claire - are disillusioned and mystified. Of all these plot strains, the most potentially fruitful has to do with the wives' reaction. Claire sees the men's ability to go fishing under those circumstances as an example of their devaluing of women; that is, she believes that if the body had been male instead of female, the men would have ended their trip immediately. She's wrong, but the fact that the filmmakers never correct that misperception leads one to think that they share her point of view.

In fact, the real gender issue at work here is a lot more interesting than the one the movie touches on. It's the one Robert Frost explored in "Home Burial," in which a wife turns on her husband after seeing him contentedly and methodically dig a grave for their newly dead child. The wife sees that as evidence of callousness. But the man sees it as merely getting lost in an activity, as operating from a purely functional center of the brain.

Stewart in "Jindabyne" isn't articulate enough to make a case for himself, and the movie gets bogged down in the specifics of Claire's emotional history, which distracts from the general import of the situation presented. Screenwriter Beatrix Christian (adapting Raymond Carver's story "So Much Water So Close to Home") is officially lost when she starts concentrating on Claire's efforts to make contact with the victim's family. That's not where the conflict is, so that's not where the healing can come about.

- Advisory: Nudity, violence, simulated sex and strong language.


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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. 

he 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.

 

 

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