![]() ![]() Like the novel, the film’s slow-burning plot crackles with other 21st century pressures and anxieties that seem ripped straight from a Four Corners report. (The Dry’s story of a complicated small-town homecoming rings very differently to that of Wiradjuri author’s Tara June Winch’s The Yield in the film, a retired farmer, played by Bruce Spence, laments without irony how the automation of agriculture could all but clear the region of its people and communities – imagine that.) It’s also part of a nation-building mythology that helped launder the realities of dispossession and environmental degradation on unceded country. In this tension, Harper’s characters inherit a settler narrative of pioneers carving hard-won homes and livelihoods from an often inhospitable, alien outback. But it’s tough … you feel this muscular, tough lifestyle of the landscape set against its beauty.” “I fell in love with it it’s the most beautiful, extraordinary place. ![]() “You drive one, two, three hours out of Melbourne, and by the time you cross four you’re into the Mallee region and the landscape changes immensely,” Connolly says. ![]() ![]() Before making the film, Connolly hit the road with Bana so the pair could immerse themselves in the world of the book. ![]()
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