Late one night in Paris, when director Christian Carion was writing the script of his latest film Farewell - a true story from the 1980’s about Russian traitors and French spies - he received a call from a man he didn’t know. “My number is completely unknown,” says Carion, “and I have no idea how […]
Opening with sensitivity and a carefully managed emphasis on the relationships between mothers and daughters, Rodrigo Garcia (who has already demonstrated his skill in making films for women with Nine Lives and Things You Can Tell By Just Looking At Her) explores motherhood, adoption and loss. Yet despite some wonderful performances, its hard not to […]
Despite playing - indeed creating - some of the most famous characters in cinema and television over the past forty years, and working with many of the industry’s leading directors and producers, John Hurt has never felt he was in control of his own destiny. The English actor, who recently returned to Australia to take […]
Without question the best written Australian film since Kate Shortland’s Somersault back in 2004, Animal Kingdom is a moody, brooding and totally gripping examination of life inside a criminal family. Carefully and subtly crafted by writer/director David Michod, the top-drawer ensemble cast will have you wondering from start to finish just how things will play […]
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