Dirt Music

A popular and critically acclaimed novel somehow just doesn’t make it to the screen in Dirt Music, an Outback tale about people with broken lives trying to find romance. It’s the slushy sort of story often associated with women’s fiction – chick lit, if you like. Georgia (Kelly Macdonald) is out swimming naked in the sea one hot, hot night when she spies a boat stealing crayfish from her husband’s fishing grounds. She says nothing but the poacher sees her and they exchange a couple of meaningless words and some more meaningful looks. Sparks would fly if she weren’t so damp. Some days later they do, when Georgia’s car breaks down and Luther … Read more