'Thematically (and to some extent tonally) the ensuing experience has obvious similarities to Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously and Robert Connolly’s Balibo, two other Australian films about journalists stationed overseas in terribly fraught political circumstances. There are also notes of Franz Kafka’s The Trial, with Greste and his two colleagues facing preposterous allegations and an obviously crooked bureaucratic system, in which the concept of guilt has nothing to do with justice, entirely defined according to the motivations of those in power.' https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/17/the-correspondent-review-richard-roxburgh-is-excellent-as-jailed-journalist-peter-greste #film #journalism #biopic