Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Led by Leah Purcell’s captivating performance, High Country delivers fresh take on Australian rural noir

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Stephen Gaunson, Associate Professor in Cinema Studies, RMIT University

“If you don’t know who your mob are, you don’t know who you are,” Detective Andrea “Andie” Whitford (played by Leah Purcell) is told early into the new crime series High Country.

Andie has recently arrived in the lush remote Victorian High Country with her partner Helen Hartley (Sara Wiseman), both trying to put traumas behind them as they start afresh.

Driving along a snaking winding road, Andie finds an isolated Mercedes Benz car. The driver’s door is wide open and the owner has left valuables behind, including keys and wallet.

Doctor Haber (Francis Greenslade)…

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