Some things won't stay buried.
Stuck in a loveless marriage, Raymond Yale (David Roberts) is re-invigorated by a chance meeting with the troubled and beautiful, Carla Smith (Claire Van Der Boom). She instantly sees in him an escape from her controlling, criminal husband (Anthony Hayes), and a dangerous affair begins. Discovering a bag of cash hidden in the rafters of her house presents a risky (but real) opportunity: a chance to run away. For fear of losing his love, Ray engineers a plan involving a petty criminal (Joel Edgerton). But things go horribly wrong. Alarm bells sound and suspicions are raised but miraculously, the dust looks to settle… after all... nobody knows.
Until the first blackmail note arrives. Now, just how far into the abyss is a man willing to go for love?
Special Agent Matti
I don't know why new, young, male filmmakers burst onto the big screen with hard-edged crime movies but they do, they do. I have to say that my first film script was a sex/murder romp. Maybe it's a testosterone thing.
Meanwhile, Joel Edgerton and Matthew Dabner have come up with a dirty, nasty, twisty bastard of a movie full of characters who have insufficient redeeming features to remain alive by the end of the film. I'm not saying that they all die but it's not for lack of trying. There's also plenty of irony.
The square is a good little Aussie movie that ranks somewhere between Gettin' square and Dirty deeds but without the stylishness of either (that's not a bad thing, just an observation).
The Australia, thriller movie The square is directed by Nash Edgerton and stars David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton.
MA 15+ (Strong violence, coarse language)
116 minutes (1:56 hours)
Film: 31 July 2008
