69. JINDABYNE
 
Australia
dir. Ray Lawrence
world premiere 2005
U.S. release 2006
 

 
Because I'm almost always game for an unexpected approach to adaptation, but what Beatrix Christian and Ray Lawrence have wrought from Raymond Carver's well-known story yields both a revealing cultural dissection and as generous a set of acute psychological profiles as anyone could ask. Extra points for such painstaking use of widescreen framing and all-natural light.