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- Mystery Road is a dark, cold crime thriller set in the unforgiving heat of the rural Queensland sun. It is a film influenced by traditional Western and film noir genres, but one that subverts and experiments with their classical tropes as well.
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Near the rural town of Winton, Queensland, a truck driver finds the body of a teenage Aboriginal girl named Julie Mason inside one of the drainage culverts under the road. Newly promoted Aboriginal Detective Jay Swan, recently returned from training in the city, investigates the murder. He learns that Julie used to exchange sex with truck ...
When the movie starts, a truck driver has just found the body of a young Aboriginal girl called Julie Mason. It is clear that she has been murdered, and just-graduated Indigenous detective Jay Swan is called in to investigate. Swan knows the town inside and out. He was born here, his estranged wife and daughter Crystal live here.
In an outback town, Jay Swan, an Indigenous cowboy detective, returns home to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town. Jay is alienated from both the white-dominated police force and the Indigenous community, including his teenage daughter, whom he discovers is connected to ...
Mystery Road review: A puzzle without answers A film that uses the genre trappings of the western and the thriller to explore a complex story of crime and indifference. By Philippa Hawker
Oct 14, 2019 · Despite Mystery Road’s at times dislocated and intricate story (a signifier of its noir influences and inflections), its entire narrative structure revolves around the murders of Indigenous girls. It is only when we, through Swan, uncover who killed Mason, and under what circumstances, does Sen let the film end – on a circumspect, elegiac note.
- Nicholas Bugeja
Aug 15, 2013 · With Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Jack Thompson. An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.
Jun 29, 2013 · By Eddie Cockrell. Writer-director-lenser-editor-composer Ivan Sen ’s “ Mystery Road ” is an impressively crafted, immensely satisfying contempo thriller that astutely grafts Western and...
