A group of urbanized Aborigines in Sydney, Australia, is defended on a murder charge by a white attorney who, by a lucky coincidence, happens to be plugged in to the Aboriginal concept of "dream time" and whose investigation of the case, and of his unique psychic powers, brings him to a somewhat incoherent moment of truth, face to face with some awful, fake-primitive cave paintings and a plaster-of-Paris mask in his own likeness. Peter Weir's Roeg-esque thriller about the collision of two alien worlds has a good deal of technical flash and some carefully worked-out water imagery running (literally) throughout. With Richard Chamberlain and David Gumpilil. (1978) — Duncan Shepherd
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