This is a gorgeously envisioned film about a woman's perilous trip through both her subconscious and the highlands of Tasmania in 1933. Jurisic lives in the rugged, remote highlands with her stoic Welsh immigrant husband, Haywood, and Zuanic, a homeless boy who has become a member of their
family. The men snare and skin wallabies and opossums--though Zuanic has anything but the killer instinct--and Jurisic keeps the home fires burning. Years before, Haywood came to work on Jurisic's father's farm in the valley. They fell in love, but her father opposed their marriage. The
scandalized couple thus moved to the highland wilderness. Haywood returns to the valley to tra...
Released:
1987
Rated:
NR
Length:
101 mins