Goodbye ParadiseAn underrated classic, Goodbye Paradise is set around the years of Joh Bjelke-Peterson's National Party Government.
Queensland is depicted as a cesspool of corruption and vice, as a booze-addled ex-cop attempts to solve a murder and in the process uncovers a plot for a military coup.
Director Carl Schultz plays slyly with the standard noir genre tropes, even including a world-weary voice-over by star Ray Barrett - playing the disgraced former cop that is hired to find the missing daughter of a senior politician.
In contrast to the usual shadowy palette of film noir, the sun-washed exteriors work symbolically to expose the exploitation of Queensland's coveted coastal fronts by developers and politicians.
