The Ventnor Film Society returns with a great season of films.
It kicks off with Jindabyne, a film based on one of Raymond Carver ‘s brilliant short stories, “So much water so close to home” (which was also used by Robert Altman in Short Cuts).
Nothing gets in the way of a men’s fishing trip, even a dead body floating in the river. The fishing trip deep into isolated hill country is the catalyst for the events at the heart of the film.
Australian director Ray Lawrence uses the opportunity to dredge the grey areas between right and wrong, putting Gabriel Byrne and Laura Linney under scrutiny as a married couple rocked by the grisly discovery.
Lawrence transposes the story to the vast landscape of New South Wales and in doing so touches a raw nerve of white middle-class guilt about treatment of indigenous communities.
Venue: Ventnor Winter Gardens
Curtains up: at 7.30pm
Tickets: £4.50 (£3.50 conc) or buy a season pass for all seven films for £30 (£20)
