“True auteurism”: Ivan Sen and Simon Baker on their collaboration in ‘Limbo’

In reviewing Ivan Sen’s Limbo, many critics have noted the parallels between the film and the auteur’s previous features Mystery Road and Goldstone.

All fit within the “outback noir” genre – following a cop who heads into a remote outback town to solve a mystery – and have First Nations themes.

However, whereas the Mystery Road franchise’s Jay Swan was an Indigenous police officer, the lead character in Limbo, the jaded and damaged d...