Sydney, AU. (EMI
Music Australia) - Ray Lawrence, the Australian director whose last film was the 2001 international hit Lantana, returns with a psychological Australian drama, �Jindabyne'. EMI will release the original motion picture soundtrack by Paul
Kelly and Dan Luscombe featuring Soteria Bell on July 15.
Composer Paul Kelly is one of Australia's best known singer/songwriters who in 1989 wrote a song (Everything's Turning To White) and released an album (So Much Water So Close To Home) inspired by the same Raymond Carver story on which �Jindabyne' is based.
Dan Luscombe is a Melbourne based musician, a member of The Black-eyed Susans, Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males, and Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions. Paul and Dan have previously worked together on the film Tom White, and the TV series, Fireflies.
Soteria Bell, whose haunting vocals cast a spell throughout the movie, are a group of Melbourne based singers who perform traditional and original music from around the world, including Venezuela, Mongolia and Japan.
The soundtrack features two new Paul Kelly songs, Jindabyne Fair and The Way That I Love You ('written', according to the screenplay, by one of the characters), and new versions by Paul of Nukkanya and Everything's Turning to White. Jindabyne Fair is sung by up and coming country performer Katie Brianna while The Way That I Love You is sung live in the film by actress, Ursula Yovich.
The movie was shot over 8 weeks in the Snowy Mountains' Kosciusko National Park and surrounding areas of Jindabyne.
The story of a murder and a marriage, �Jindabyne' is a powerful and original film about the things that haunt us. On an annual fishing trip, in isolated high country, Stewart, Carl, Rocco and Billy ('the Kid') find a girl's body in the river. It's too late in the day for them to hike back to the road and report their tragic find.
Next morning, instead of making the long trek back, they spend the day fishing. Their decision to stay on at the river is a little mysterious - almost as if the place itself is exerting some kind of magic over them. When the men finally return home to Jindabyne, and report finding the body, all hell breaks loose.
The fishermen, their wives and their children are suddenly haunted by their own bad spirits. As public opinion builds against the actions of the men, their certainty about themselves and the decision they made at the river is challenged.
They cannot undo what they have done.
JINDABYNE - THE MOVIE OPENS NATIONALLY ON JULY 20
JINDABYNE - THE ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK - RELEASED JULY 15
