Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie follows, determined to find him and bring him back.
Cinematography
Western Australia looks illegally beautiful, almost unfair
Acting
Kelly Macdonald deserves better scripts but elevates everything
Score
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis doing their melancholic thing
Director
Gregor Jordan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Tim Winton's novel; the author famously hated the adaptation and distanced himself from it.
The title refers to Aboriginal concept of songlines—landscapes as living memory, which the film barely explores despite its visual obsession with terrain.
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