Weekend of Shadows

This very well-made Australian film, noteworthy for resourceful efforts by cast and crew, is based upon a novel by Hugh Atkinson, and is filmed for the most part in Macclesfield, a South Australian hamlet surrounded by the Adelaide Hills, across which the action takes place, its setting during the 1930s as nicely confirmed by correct production and costume design. The narrative opens as we see workmen toiling at a brickmaking factory, with their routine shattered by the discovery of a brutal homicide, the victim a village housewife.

This is one of the top films of the late seventies. It is a real sleeper, as not many people will have had the opportunity to witness its charms in an actual cinema.

Weekend of Shadows isn't a bad little Australian film at all. The acting is rather well done and the setting isn't bad either.