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Dirt Music

Play trailer 1:40 Poster for Dirt Music 2019 1h 45m Romance Play Trailer Watchlist
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A woman falls in love with a mysterious loner who's haunted by a tragic accident from the past.
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As beautifully filmed as it is emotionally hollow, Dirt Music goes digging for romance but only buries the audience in mounds of melodrama.

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Linda Marric The Jewish Chronicle Risibly far-fetched, contrived and unoriginal. Rated: 2/5 Jul 15, 2021 Full Review Stephen Romei The Australian He's not an impossible author to film, but a challenging one to translate from page to screen. Rated: 2/5 Oct 7, 2020 Full Review Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald While it plays out against the glories of the Dampier Peninsula, the splendors of the backdrop can't make up for the fact events in the foreground are failing to make sense. Rated: 3/5 Oct 7, 2020 Full Review Cris Kennedy The Canberra Times (Australia) Garrett Hedlund looks like a fourth Hemsworth, sun-bleached hair and dreamy eyes. He has the harder role, skirting between misery and a deeper layer of misery. Rated: 4/5 Aug 17, 2022 Full Review Dan Bayer Next Best Picture A beautiful bore. Rated: 3/10 May 13, 2022 Full Review Audrey Fox JumpCut Online Dirt Music has few pleasures to recommend it, and even with a relatively lean running time of an hour and 45 minutes, it limps to an unexciting conclusion with the pace of an injured snail. Aug 28, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member The acting is wooden and the plot garbled, losing much of the nuance of the book Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Slow, dull and a real shame given the cast. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review farah r It's beautifully shot but ultimately dull and uninteresting. The story isn't deep or impactful in any way and none of the characters grow by the end. Not sure what the point of this film was. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Faithful and beautiful adaptation of Tim Winton's emotional novel, excellent performances by all three main characters and just a joy to watch. Gripping from the first scene. No guns violence or special effects, a film about love loss and families. An Australian classic. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member It was great cinematography and acting. Loved it. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review graeme o Better than the reviews here; though it may help to be Australian or an Australian-ophile. The Western Australian beach and landscapes - and the folk pop music (Angus and Julia Stone) - are each worth half the admission. But the scripting the is too melodramatic; and cannot capture the brooding and psychological essence of the novel. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A woman falls in love with a mysterious loner who's haunted by a tragic accident from the past.
Director
Gregor Jordan
Producer
Finola Dwyer, Angie Fielder, Amanda Posey, Polly Staniford
Screenwriter
Jack Thorne
Production Co
Pelgo Films, Wildgaze Films, Film4, Aquarius Films
Genre
Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 17, 2020
Runtime
1h 45m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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