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Ivan sens unflinching, insightful film about aboriginal life in rural australia features a revelatory central peformance from. Directed by ivan sen and starring aaron pedersen, hugo weaving, jack thompson and ryan kwanten. The session i viewed of mystery road was introduced, in person, by aaron pederson who plays jay swan the swank, rugged, aboriginal detective in this much talked about new movie. Yes, mystery road is a genre flick and therefore not comparable. One important, conventional technique to the road movie is the use of mobile cameras. Ivan sens mystery road is all the more remarkable given that he directed, wrote, shot, edited and scored the film. Mystery road is a mysterious cinematic feature from writerdirector ivan sen. Sen won acclaim for beneath clouds and toomelah, both of which explored the issues faced by rural indigenous communities like those he grew up in. The mystery road film crew also shot a chinese restaurant dining scene at hong kong cuisine in brisbane st, ipswich. Oct 14, 2014 watch the movie trailer for mystery road 2014. We are a small software company based in melbourne, australia. Aaron pedersen as jay in the second season of mystery road. There are some wonderful night scenes, set against fiery sunset skies.
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Suddenly everything went toward dialogue oriented material based on scripts from the stage. Aaron pedersen excels as an indigenous australian cop caught between two worlds in ivan. It is in this film that we see a highspeed, exploding train run right off a cliff, and watch a steampowered locomotive turn into a magical, timetraveling hovertrain. The african queen 1951 is the uncomplicated tale of two companions with mismatched, opposites attract personalities who develop an implausible love affair as they travel together downriver in africa around the start of world war i. Oct 09, 20 yes, mystery road is a genre flick and therefore not comparable, but just sayin despite some stylish flourishes on the way through, this is not a particularly satisfying or successful excursion into genre filmmaking from one of the countrys most promising directing talents.
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Sen concentrates so heavily on social subtext that mystery road wants for narrative oomph, particularly in the languid middle section. Anthony morris is a freelance film and television writer. It begins with an unsettling scene in the hours before dawn. In literature, this fallacy is often used in detective or suspense novels to mislead readers or characters, or.
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