![]() ![]() 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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