The Silence (2006)

The Silence is not exactly her newest film; it is a two-part television drama commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was greeted with enormous critical approval upon its broadcast earlier this year - and it's easy to see why. It shares the same visceral, slightly dangerous flavour and dreamy mise-en-scène of Somersault, but transposed into a kick-ass policier. This work may have premiered on television, but its visual power and total command of storytelling make it cinema through and through.

Detective Richard Treloar (the superlative Richard Roxburgh) is transferred to a desk job at the Police Museum after his involvement in a fatal, largely unexplained shooting. While preparing for an exhibition, he becomes obsessed with a haunting black-and-white image of a woman, gunned down in a silk dress, lying on a pier, her belly a blotchy mess from the bullet she took. He starts searching for her face in other images and begins to see anomalies.

Richard launches into an investigation that leads him to an ornery former

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