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Brisbane in all its seedy, subtropical splendour as a special new landscape of the noir detective story, but the knots of story keep pulling away from this possibility before it really happens. The Queensland politics seem (even for Queensland) overblown, as though the actors escaped the uncertain clutches of the director, John Prescott. Still, with John Flaus in it, its eccentric credentials arc unmisiakeable."
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