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A boy strikes up a relationship with a drug dealer in writer-director Ivan Sen’s Un Certain Regard selection set in an impoverished Australian Aboriginal community.

CANNES — An observational study as much as a dramatic story, Toomelah successfully conveys a 10-year-old boy’s perspective on the miserable limitations of life in an Aboriginal Australian community but doesn’t really have much new to say about the plight of the have-nots. An estimable display of the talents of writer-director-cinematographer-composer Ivan Sen, who gained attention with his debut feature Beneath Clouds in 2002 and whose documentary Yellow Fella showed in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2005, the new film will spark sympathetic reactions on the international festival circuit but have trouble getting much traction theatrically off its home turf.

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