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Limbo

Limbo (Ivan Sen, 2023) wr. ed. dp music co-prod. Ivan Sen, co-prod. David Jowsey, Greer Simpkin, Rachel Higgins, prod. Bunya; Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, Nicholas Hope, Nick Buckland; shot Coober Pedy, SA; Simon Baker stars as Travis Hurley, a detective who arrives in a small Australian outback town to investigate the twenty-year-old unsolved murder of a local Aboriginal girl. Forming bonds with the victim's fractured family, Travis unravels a series of hard truths, highlighting the complexities of loss and injustice experienced by Aboriginal Australians.

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Buckmaster, Luke 2023, 'Limbo review – Simon Baker is transcendent in another beautiful film from Ivan Sen', Guardian: 'The cast are uniformly excellent in the auteur’s latest outback noir, with his star playing a tough, sorrowful detective investigating the murder of an Indigenous girl 20 years before'.

Keast, Jackie 2023, 'Limbo, Survival of Kindness in Berlin competition line-up', IF, 23 January.

'Ivan Sen’s desert noir Limbo underway in Coober Pedy starring Simon Baker', SAFC, 19 August 2022.

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