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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Luke Buckmaster

Limbo review – Simon Baker is transcendent in another beautiful film from Ivan Sen

Simon Baker in Limbo
Simon Baker in Limbo, a new film from Ivan Sen. Photograph: Bunya Productions

After making last year’s Loveland, a heavily ponderous and unsubtle sci-fi film set in Hong Kong, the Indigenous auteur Ivan Sen – most famous for directing the Mystery Road movies – has returned to crime in the sun-scorched desert. And damn it’s great to have him back doing outback noir, because Sen is so bloody good at it. His latest work, Limbo, is an eerily meditative production with top-notch performances and a harshly beautiful monochrome veneer.

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