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The same organic characterizations that marked Lawrence's acclaimed 2001 film "Lantana" will attract fans of strong adult drama.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
I wish one-tenth of the films I saw were made with this much craft and integrity, this much intuitive understanding of where to put the camera, how much of the story to explain in words (not much) and how much to trust his outstanding cast to carry the film with their voices, faces and bodies.
60
New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein
Scene by scene, Jindabyne has dramatic force, but it's an awfully long slog. Carver's smartest tactic was never outstaying his welcome.
80
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.
70
Hand it to Lawrence and Christian. Jindabyne is a soberly, if sluggishly, crafted movie in which the bitterness never stops.
75
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
The result is a mature and challenging motion picture, and something that will stick with viewers after the screen has gone dark.
50
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
Jindabyne started with a bad idea and the finished film doesn't do well by it.
75
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Jindabyne -- named for the lakeside town in which the troubles spill -- can't contain all that the filmmakers want to throw in. Best to keep glued to the taut performance by Laura Linney.
75
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
Writer-director Ray Lawrence, well regarded for his two previous films, "Bliss" and "Lantana," expands Carver's work into an indictment of colonialism and an examination of the chasm that supposedly exists between men and women over matters of the heart.
70
Never obtains the full impact of its potentially powerful inner core.