This completely exceeded my expectations and has to be Erica Bana's best performance in years.
It's definitely a slow-burner but I was engaged from the start. Everything feels very well-developed - the small town, the unique characters, the mysteries and the backdrop of drought.
If you enjoy small towns filled with mysteries, secrets and lies, then you will enjoy this. The Dry has a very authentic atmosphere and captures rural Australia well. Its use of flashbacks was never jarring and the past and present complemented eachother effectively.
The intertwined stories worked fantastically, with the result being a very powerful film and ending. Not a film I'll forget in a hurry.
It's definitely a slow-burner but I was engaged from the start. Everything feels very well-developed - the small town, the unique characters, the mysteries and the backdrop of drought.
If you enjoy small towns filled with mysteries, secrets and lies, then you will enjoy this. The Dry has a very authentic atmosphere and captures rural Australia well. Its use of flashbacks was never jarring and the past and present complemented eachother effectively.
The intertwined stories worked fantastically, with the result being a very powerful film and ending. Not a film I'll forget in a hurry.