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All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Grant Watson Fiction Machine. The Last Wave is bold and wonderful strange. It comes packed with rain-soaked foreboding and a...
Directed by Peter Weir. A startling and mesmerizing Australian film about aborigines, nature, and dreamtime. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. A desert town in Australia. …
David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) is a Sydney lawyer hired to defend some Aborigines accused of murder. Around this time, there has been unusually heavy rainfall in Australia. …
The Last Wave (also released in the United States as Black Rain) is a 1977 Australian mystery drama film directed by Peter Weir. It is about a white solicitor in Sydney whose seemingly normal life is disrupted after he takes on a murder case and discovers that he shares a strange, mystical connection with the small group of local Aboriginal people accused of the crime.
The Last Wave. 1977. ★★★★½. Watched May 08, 2021. The Last Wave is an apocalyptic vision presented amidst the collision of two worlds. It focuses partially on the contrast of the modern …
The Last Wave Reviewed. fright Aboriginal curse dream australian. In lieu of any scary villains or boogeymen, The Last Wave allows a primal awareness to roll in like a storm …
An entrancing and unsettling blend of legal mystery drama, folk horror, and cosmic horror. “The Last Wave” is Peter Weir´s follow up film to “Picnic at Hanging Rock” and its vibe is quite similar.