The Well is a 1997 Australian film directed by Samantha Lang and starring Pamela Rabe, Miranda Otto, Paul Chubb, and Frank Wilson.

Hester, however, becomes attracted to Katherine and holds her there, promising to give her less work in the future.

Sandra Levy bought the rights to the novel and hired Laura Jones to adapt.

Nothing in it is wrong, the acting is superb, and its Look — Ingmar Bergman 1967 I'd put it, portentous, exquisite, mesmeric, confronting and pointless as Piss Christ — is beyond all carping and cavil.

But it’s a big arrogant feature film instead, about forty-two hours long, a mountainside Piano bristling with dog-eared Freudian symbols and bereft of actual drama, blue-filtered throughout in honour, perhaps; of Blue Hills, which was also set in Cooma, and audiences are already hurling themselves out of aeroplanes over the Himalayas to be free of it; and I know by Christ how they feel.