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Australian cinema gets a little darker with 'Animal Kingdom'

By Cary Darling DALLAS -- It used to be that Australian cinema came in two basic flavors: solidly historical ( Gallipoli, Breaker Morant) and colorfully quirky ( The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Muriel's Wedding).Today, much of the talk of the film-festival circuit and the indie-film underground is the new style of darkly intense genre movies that Australian director/writers are crafting -- from the horrors of Greg McLean's Wolf Creek and James Wan's original Saw to the Hitchcock-style thrill ride of Joel and Nash Edgerton's The Square.The latest addition to the scene is Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Animal Kingdom, opening Friday, a sweaty little crime thriller set on the back streets of Melbourne from first-time features director David Michôd."There's a certain energy [happening] that's been rare in Australia for the last eight or nine years," Michôd says during an interview at the Crescent Hotel.

 

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