Jindabyne

Jindabyne is "a movie that doesn't quite look like a movie: so natural seeming it's a little bleached out, and so understated in its acting that it's the screen equivalent of Carver's transparent, vernacular prose style."

GreenCine Daily: NYT, 4/15. 2007

Jindabyne is moody and mysterious, but I draw the line at "magnificent".

Filmstalker: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2006 - Filmstalker watch list 2006

If he feels the script has the potential to be truly great, the way he did with Mr. O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" and "Jindabyne," a 2006 film based on a Raymond Carver story, he quickly stops reading and goes for a walk.

Getting Comfortable but Not Too Familiar Amy Chozick 2010

There are few directors who make such fine films for and about adults as Lawrence and it's just a shame he doesn't work more regularly, but with Jindabyne he got miracles out of Laura Linney, Deborah-Lee Furness and Gabriel Byrne while playing his audience like a violin.

A List For Australia Day Glenn Dunks 2010

So many people are putting Jindabyne up there on noughties lists that I think I'm going to have to rewatch it.

A List For Australia Day Glenn Dunks 2010

Agreed with a lot of your choices,especially Jindabyne which I found very moving and haunting but my friends found to be boring!

A List For Australia Day Glenn Dunks 2010

There are few directors who make such fine films for and about adults as Lawrence and it's just a shame he doesn't work more regularly, but with Jindabyne he got miracles out of Laura Linney, Deborah-Lee Furness and Gabriel Byrne while playing his audience like a violin.

Archive 2010-01-01 Glenn Dunks 2010

I'm not actually watching the opening night tonight as I'm off to see Jindabyne (movie culture over tv torture in most people's eyes) but thanks to Catch Up TV I'm sure I'll get my Davinia fix by the time the day is out.

Day 1 in the Big Brother house Jeff 2007

"Jindabyne, which opens April 27, an Australian film directed by Ray Lawrence and starring Gabriel Byrne and Laura Linney, is just the second full-length [Raymond] Carver feature - or even the first if, like some hard-line Carver purists, you don't count Robert Altman's Short Cuts, which came out 14 years ago," writes Charles McGrath.

GreenCine Daily: NYT, 4/15. 2007

"If Adam's Apples isn't the best movie I see in 2007, whatever movie is will be really, really, really good," writes Dennis Harvey; also in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Jason Shamai on Jindabyne.

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 5/10. 2007