MYSTERY ROAD (2018) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Rachel Perkins
Aaron Pederson, Judy Davis, Tasia Zalar,
Tasma Walton, Wayne Blair, Deborah Mailman,
Colin Friels, Anthony Hayes, Aaron L. McGrath
When two young men - a white backpacker and an Aboriginal football star - go missing on a vast outback cattle station , a white cop and an Aboriginal detective team up to try to find them. A six-part Australian miniseries that ends up being about a lot more than a missing persons case. The narrative has some loose ends - subplots and characters that seem to be going somewhere and then just kind of vanish - but Davis and Pederson command your attention, and the aerial shots of the landscape are spectacular. (The role the land plays in the story is crucial.) More visual evidence that no place on earth looks anything like Australia.
