Last Ride

The boy is about ten and he is on the road with his father. They drive through the middle of Australia: salt lakes, empty towns, places with nobody in them. At first he takes it for a holiday. But the cars that keep changing, the things left behind and the fact that his father is running from the law all come clear by degrees. The longer the road runs, the more questions the boy has, until he is caught between loving his father and being afraid of him. Glendyn Ivin's first feature has Hugo Weaving as the father and Tom Russell as the son. The film uses the landscape not as decoration but as a way of showing the distance between two people, and the emptiness of Australia obliges.