Limbo

"[It] joins a long line of fine Australian films taking to the desert to disinter racial trauma, to rebury the bones with more care and awareness, but also enduring fury" 

"Simon Baker is superb (...) With its strikingly cinematic locations and Sen’s expressive use of the widescreen frame, 'Limbo' also sneaks up on you" 

"The film is spare, sunbleached and serious in its study of people long neglected and abused. Yet the drama is thin, and the mystery halfhearted. Whatever desert sand the movie kicks up soon settles down again" 

"This is a film that will be valued for its sheer singularity – not by everyone, certainly, but by anyone curious about what the edge of hell might be like" 

"Sen, who also handled both the black-and-white cinematography and the editing, has a terrific eye for shot composition and sets a deliberate pace that feels implacable rather than merely slow" 

"Ivan Sen’s gorgeous cinematography and a well-intentioned exploration of Australian racism can’t redeem the crime of a dull script" 

"It foregoes conventional thrills the better to steep the viewer in an atmosphere whose otherworldly appearance doesn’t mitigate the very earthbound injustices committed within it. “Limbo” is entirely engrossing as it brings its discomfiting points home (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"