Fred Schepisi
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Fred Schepisi
Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Elaine on Seinfeld once offered a non sequitur at a party just to relieve her own boredom: “The dingo ate your baby,” she blurted in a bad Australian accent. It was a reference to this harrowing film by director Fred Schepisi, based on a true story. Meryl Streep and Sam Neill play a married couple on a camping trip whose baby disappears. Streep maintains that the baby was carried off by a dingo—a wild dog—but she winds up as the victim of a hard-hearted prosecutor and the target of a nationwide hate campaign, in part because she was a…
Fred Schepisi
With Last Orders, Australian-born writer-director Fred Schepisi has done a fine job of bringing Graham Swift’s Booker Prize-winning novel to the screen. Schepisi simplifies the book’s complex structure a little (we get flashbacks within flashbacks, often switching time and place mid-way through a line of dialogue), but it’s all handled so lucidly and sensitively that we’re never left in any doubt as to when and where we are.The setting is Peckham, South London. Jack, a butcher, has recently died of cancer, leaving instructions that his ashes should be…
