Dry Fidelity: Robert Connolly's 'The Dry' and Big-screen Crime Adaptation

A faithful and efficient adaptation of the popular crime novel by Jane Harper, Robert Connolly's film was the local cinematic success story of early 2021. But considered in the context of recent Australian genre works that have capably straddled the increasingly blurred divide between big and small screen, the film is disappointingly lacking in some essential cinematic qualities, Mel Campbell argues.

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