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The Last Wave

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Original title

The Last Waveaka

AKA

Black Rain

Year

1977

Running time

106 min.

Country

Australia

Director

Peter Weir

Screenwriter

Peter Weir, Tony Morphett, Petru Popescu

Cast

Music

Charles Wain

Cinematography

Russell Boyd, Ron Taylor

Producer

The Australian Film Commission, Cinema International Corporation (CIC)

Genre

Mystery. Fantasy

Synopsis

A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court. Determined to break their silence and discover the truth behind the hidden society he suspects lives in his city, the Lawyer is drawn further, and more intimately, into a prophesy that threatens a new Armageddon, wherein all the continent shall drown.

Rankings Position

#50 Best Australian Movies of all time

Awards: 1982: Sitges: Best Actor (Richard Chamberlain)

1982: Film Festival of Catalonia: Best Actor. 2 nominations

1978: Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival: Special Jury Award. 2 nominations

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Critics' reviews

"Weir does manage to deliver the goods."

Chicago Reader
"A powerful, yet subtle, picture from Australian director Peter Weir, who has demonstrated quite a flair for mystical themes."

TV Guide
"Richard Chamberlain is highly effective as a young lawyer caught up in a case of an aborigine murdered by some others in town."

Variety Staff: Variety
"[It] begins so brilliantly and with such promise that it's no real surprise that the closer it gets to its apocalypse, the less effective it becomes."

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"A minor triumph of atmosphere and nightmare imaginings."

Michael Atkinson: Village Voice
"Weather is an instrument of terror in this Peter Weir classic, and western rationalism fails in the face of Indigenous spirituality"

Luke Buckmaster: The Guardian

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Ranking Lists Position

59 My Favorite Australian/New Zealand Movies (9)

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