Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.
Acting
Laura Linney's quiet devastation steals every scene.
Direction
Ray Lawrence lets silence do the violent work.
Cinematography
The landscape becomes a character—beautiful and judging.
Director
Ray Lawrence
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Raymond Carver's 'So Much Water So Close to Home,' relocated to Australia to interrogate white settler indifference toward Indigenous suffering.
The title refers to a town flooded to build a dam—its secrets literally submerged, like the film's buried colonial violence.
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