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Ramke and Howling are at their best when they orchestrate scenes the depend on suspense rather than overt horror. And they're helped immeasurably by the outstanding cinematography of Geoffrey Simpson, whose use of spectacular South Australian locations gives the film a tremendous boost.

Cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson (Shine) does brilliant work capturing the isolation of the characters as they hike through the sun-drenched landscape. The drone footage, in particular, conveys this to great effect.

Martin Freeman's performance is spectacular and Geoffrey Simpson's cinematography is a hymn to landscape.

Geoffrey Simpson's sumptuous lensing, capturing the green-and-rust hued South Australian landscape in soaring overhead shots as well as on-the-ground, also helps make the correlation plain, filled as it is with scenic sights corrupted by voracious interlopers.

Cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson captures the Outback in all it's rugged, windswept glory, replete with numerous scenes infested with buzzing flies - persistent indicators of death's presence in this most inhospitable of milieus.

As Indigenous groups return to their ancestral lands to live in "the old ways", cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson captures gorgeous visuals through the smoke and flames of cleansing tituals. The Australian landscape also makes for an imposing setting, it's natural beauty at odds with the challenges that it's vastness represents to Andy.

The setting is magnificent and the cinematography outstanding. Geoffrey Simpson (Sleeping Beauty) serves as director of photography.

Set in the arid Australian outback, and stunningly photographed by the veteran cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson (Shine, Oscar and lucinda) it's constructed around an exceptionally central turn from the Sherlock star Martin Freeman.

Geoffrey Simpson | ACS

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