BERLIN : Director Ivan Sen could draw on deep wells of personal knowledge when making 'Limbo', a noir film set in a mine-pocked corner of the Australian outback about a racist police force's failure to investigate an indigenous woman's murder.'My family have seen it. There have been two women murdered and
BERLIN : Director Ivan Sen could draw on deep wells of personal knowledge when making"Limbo", a noir film set in a mine-pocked corner of the Australian outback about a racist police force's failure to investigate an indigenous woman's murder.
The black-and-white film, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, casts"L.A. Confidential" star Simon Baker as a detective sent to the opal-mining town of Limbo to review a 20-year-old unsolved murder. For all that Australia's wealth is built on the minerals below its surface, little of it is on display in Limbo, the film's stand-in for Coober Pedy, a mining town where over a million holes have been drilled in the search for opal.
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