the “sour” soil which parallels the infertile people, the exploitative economic structure (depicting a white elite subjugating an aboriginal community) and the predominance of death personified in the
(The film is believed to have been left unfinished, with even the most complete version missing a reel of footage, but its sense of time and place, and its narrative cohesion, is so slippery that it’s nearly impossible to spot where the story suddenly leaps over 10 minutes of possible e...