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Crowe’s water diviner is out of his depth

A film that purports to show the ‘other’ side of the ANZAC story does anything but

10 January 2015

9:00 AM

10 January 2015

9:00 AM

To much fanfare, Russell Crowe’s first film as a director, The Water Diviner, was released on Boxing Day. It appears at a key moment – the focus of the film, Gallipoli, is about to become the centrepiece in an elaborate nation-wide commemoration to mark the centenary of the landing in 1915.

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