It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to the next picture show, movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film

on the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Scott Tobias here again with

Keith Phipps and Genevieve Kosky. On last week's show, we talked about picnic and hanging rock,

Peter Weir's Australian New Wave classic about the disappearance of three

schoolgirls in a teacher in rural Victoria. This week, we're heading down under again for

The Dry, director Robert Connolly's adaptation of Jane Harper's novel, both of which were big hits

in their native country. The film stars Eric Banna as Aaron Falk, a big city federal agent who returns to his

inland hometown of Kiwara for the first time in over 20 years. Aaron has come back to attend

the funeral of his former best buddy Luke, who allegedly killed his wife, his oldest child, and

himself, sparing only his infant daughter. Luke's parents don't believe their son committed

this horrible crime, so they beckon Aaron to stick around and investigate. Aaron does so with

great reluctance, we discover, because many in the town believe he was involved in the death

of a girl who drowned in the river decades earlier. As these past and present tragedies converge,

the tensions play out in a literal and metaphorical tinderbox, as Kiwara has been so damaged by drought that an errant flame could light the whole place up.

We'll talk more about this explosive situation after the break.

I think about the loveless fascination. You're stinking pink?

What are you doing back in our town, boy?

Under the new period of mine.

So I've heard some stories about me.

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