Beneath Clouds...a classic movie, perhaps Australia's greatest. One of those rare scripts which includes long, silent expression as a big part of the dialogue. There is real magic in Dannielle Hall's face, on which the camera loves to linger for us. A fine study of blind racism and budding first love, with long distance trucks and ramshackle cafés grubbying the purity and mythic power of the Aussie outback as telling backdrop. All built on the classic form of road trip as attempted escape to a better world, punctuated with stops by hostile cops and other familiar dangers, but miraculously free of any taint of deja vu as a genuine bond emerges between two young people beset by the power and corruptions of a multi tribal adult world. And all is bound together seamlessly by the long held, steadying music, composed by Ivan Sen as he wrote the screenplay for his striking directorial accomplishment.
Review of Beneath Clouds
