The Dry, Brisbane | Concrete Playground Brisbane

In The Dry, a man heads back to the drought-stricken town he grew up in for the first time in two decades, returning in the aftermath of a new tragedy and unearthing the still-blistering remnants of an old one in the process. An Australian Federal Police officer who left the regional farming community of Kiewarra under terse circumstances, Aaron Falk has the look of someone who long ago let the ability to display his feelings dry up — and while that isn’t what the film’s title refers to, Eric Bana plays the movie’s protagonist as if it was. He’s dogged and no-nonsense. He can shoot a glare at someone that’s as severe as his profile, and often does. Twenty years after Chopper made Bana’s name as a dramatic actor, rather than a sketch…