The Last Wave
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Sydney corporate lawyer David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) shrugged it off as luck of the draw once assigned the legal aid defense of four aborigines over the murder of one of their own. As he becomes steeped in the case, however, he starts suspecting an uncanny nexus between his clients' tribal beliefs and the eerie, apocalyptic weather phenomena plaguing the region. (Umbrella Entertainment)
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And it rains and it pours. In 1976 there was Satan, two years later viewers were touched by the Medusa, but before this in 1977 Weir flushed them both out with his contribution to this wave of mysterious movies kicked off at the beginning of the seventies by the Exorcist. What makes this a classic is not just the “evil with a human face", but mainly the heavily uneasy atmosphere which, the same as the former, nibbles away at you with a “but what if, after all..."
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Very well made and with a strong atmosphere, but so slow. The boredom is unavoidable, especially when there are very few topics that I find less interesting than Australian Aborigines… The person who in their review of The Medusa Touch recommended The Last Wave, saying that “it’s similar but a little better” must be mad.
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A strange film, thematically quite distant from us, yet on the other hand, it's possible to find something in it that we've lost in the present time. That something is the connection with nature and its mysteries. If we're willing to delve into the film, it's probably possible to find some profound depth of ideas, but the film certainly doesn't make it easy.
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