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Author Nadine Whitney

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Nadine Hasselt Whitney holds qualifications in cinema, literature, cultural studies, education and design. When not writing about film, art or books, she can be found napping and missing her cat.

The Daughter Review – A Powerful and Atmospheric Film that Lingers and Disturbs

Nadine Whitney
May 25, 2020
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The Daughter is an exquisite rendering of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck set in a small logging community in rural NSW, Simon Stone’s first feature is remarkably assured as it transposes Ibsen’s tragedy to a sma...

Charlie Says Review – A Muddied Character Study that Feels Incomplete

Nadine Whitney
May 15, 2020
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In the space of two years, three films about the Manson family murders appeared to varying degrees of critical and commercial success. The universally panned 2019 Hilary Duff vehicle The Haunting of Sharon Tat...

Rabbit Hole Review – Finding a Future After Spiralling Grief and Loss

Nadine Whitney
April 29, 2020
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From outré queer director and musical theatre genius, John Cameron Mitchell comes a revelatory piece of understated suburban melodrama exploring the complex nature of grief when complicated by intricate famili...

In Fabric Review – A Reminder That Peter Strickland is Capable of Far Superior Work

Nadine Whitney
March 19, 2020
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Peter Strickland is a stylist who wears his influences on his exquisitely curse embroidered sleeve. Whilst his homages to the stylistic influences of Italian Giallo were successful in both Berberian Sound Stud...

St Maud Review – This Film Will haunt You Long After its Flames Have Extinguished

Nadine Whitney
March 14, 2020
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St Maud is a disturbing first feature by writer/director Rose Glass. In an effort that is nuanced, and intelligent Glass delivers a horror film that is both unsettlingly original yet also harkens to aesthetic ...

Undertow Review – An Extraordinary Film About the Complexities of Being a Woman in a Male-Dominated World

Nadine Whitney
March 7, 2020
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Undertow is an extraordinary piece of slice-of-life cinema that investigates the lengths people will go to deal with trauma and loss. Writer/Director Miranda Nation follows the lives of four people — the privi...

Emma. Review – A Sumptuous and Voluptuous Period Piece

Nadine Whitney
March 4, 2020
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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very ...

The Leunig Fragments Review – An Elegy Stage Managed By Its Subject

Nadine Whitney
February 25, 2020
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Michael Leunig is one of 79 Australian National Living Treasures. There are certainly some august and worthy names on the list, like Barry Jones, Judy Davis, Julian Burnside, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Garry McD...

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