A provocative showcase for the underappreciated talents of Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense), this follows an Australian geologist (Collette) who gets stuck chaperoning a Japanese businessman (Gotaro Tsunashima) through the Outback. Australian director Sue Brooks clearly is influenced by her regional predecessors. Her landscapes echo the ghostly atmosphere of Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, while the feminist undertones are straight out of the canon of Jane Campion (The Piano).
