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Mystery Road
An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.
22 January 1971, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
17 September 1945, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
5 October 1969, Bolzano, Italy
1941, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
1947, Ruawai, Northland, New Zealand
19 August 1973, Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
5 September 1943, Cummeragunja, Australia
19 February 1962, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
4 April 1960, Ibadan, Nigeria
August 28, 2014
Mystery Road may be set in modern Queensland but it has the feel of a flinty, slow-burning western as one stetson-wearing lawman stands against an entire community.August 28, 2014
This sand-blasted Aussie murder mystery tinkers with genre convention while managing to remain sincere and thrilling.August 29, 2014
Slow-burning but very powerful.August 29, 2014
Mystery Road is a detective story that unspools with languid menace on the widescreen of the Australian Outback.August 28, 2014
A striking and menacing slow-burn thriller set in the Australian outback which blends dry humour with startling social commentary.September 01, 2014
This tightly wound drama evokes a strikingly inventive sense of the Wild West in the Australian Outback.August 28, 2014
Director Ivan Sen's fourth feature evokes old westerns, Polanski's Chinatown and other noir classics, but still feels grounded in the dust and dried blood of the Australian soil.August 29, 2014
Aaron Pendersen is thoroughly believable as the conflicted Jay and the blasted landscape is photographed so well you'll be sweating and swatting the flies away from your own face after 10 mins.August 31, 2014
Sen (who also shoots, scores and edits) goes walkabout through the minefield of contemporary Australian culture, offering an evocative snapshot of an unravelling crime scene - social, racial and economic.June 27, 2016
I won't lie and say Mystery Road kept me on the edge of my seat for its duration, but there is a lot to enjoy in its delicately peeled back layers.August 29, 2014
A superior and taut outback adventure, you'd have to go back to Samson and Delilah to find an Australian feature this bonsa.