Bondi Icebergs is the most photographed pool in the world. This gorgeously shot documentary about the pool and the diverse community for whom it is a place of challenge, solace, meditation and connection shows there’s still much left to be revealed beneath its surface.
Far from a standard career retrospective, this is instead an unhurried, intimate portrait of a man who described himself as living in two worlds, created in collaboration with its subject as he approached the end of his extraordinary life.
On a WA wheat farm in 1968, Ed (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy (Clarence Ryan) are best mates despite steep social inequalities, but new laws change their world. Roger Mason’s dreamlike score complements visuals that pay homage to Terrence Malick.
Miles Davis (in his only starring feature film role) plays a legendary trumpeter whose brief, unexpected Outback appearance changes the life of John ‘Dingo’ Anderson (Colin Friels). Davis and Michel Legrand composed the soundtrack and Rolf de Heer directs.
Glass-obsessed heiress Lucinda (Cate Blanchett, already extraordinary in one of her first films) and guilt-ridden naif priest Oscar (Ralph Fiennes, in a role unlike any other in his career) are inveterate gamblers, and lifelong misfits until they meet one another. But even then neither can resist an all-or-nothing bet.
