Visconti’s lonely dreamers in Le Notti Bianche featured at Cinema Reborn
Le Notti Bianche is a stunningly beautiful story of yearning and loving beyond what outsiders would deem reasonable.…
Nadine Whitney
Mother Mary is an immersive and fascinating art haunting
Mother Mary is depending on metaphors to express how an essential creative act and bond can never be fully explained, nor can it be completely abandoned.…
Obsession is violent, perverse, and entertaining in its absolute nastiness
Barker’s film is uncomfortably funny and filled with left-field set pieces that will have the audience gasping.…
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a comfy sequel
If you’re happy to just exist in the world of the characters then The Devil Wears Prada 2 is going to fit perfectly. If you’d like something “groundbreaking” the film isn’t it. Ironically, it’s more comfy sweats than haute couture.…
Salt Along the Tongue is a heady and mysterious Australian Euro folk horror
Parish Malfitano’s horror/melodrama Salt Along the Tongue is made in Australia but its bones are European. Specifically, the bones are primarily Italian, but Malfitano extends the film to the many nat…
Hokum announces Damian McCarthy as a major creative voice and a horror maestro
Hokum /ˈhoʊkəm/ noun. [noncount] informal Chiefly US: foolish or untrue words or ideas. Nonsense. Irish director Damian McCarthy has been refining his craft over his three features. Caveat and Oddi…
Rabbit Trap is narratively uneven but atmospherically effective | Fantastic Film Festival Australia
“Call my name and I’ll come home.” Bryn Chainey’s faerie folk-horror Rabbit Trap is narratively uneven but atmospherically effective. Set in 1973 in Cymru (Wales) a married couple have moved from Lon…
Wolfram provides a window into the past through the eye of one of Australia's best storytellers
Warwick Thornton said that Wolfram acts as an antidote to its stunning forebear Sweet Country – a film that cost the director and his cast and crew a great deal emotionally to make. With the scars of…
The Deb director Rebel Wilson on being “Pretty Strong” and how musicals changed her life
Multi-hyphenate talent Rebel Wilson has added director to her list of skills with the bright new musical The Deb. Centring on Maeve (Charlotte MacInnes) a wealthy Sydney base teen who is sent to a sma…
Proclivitas is a triumph of mood and meaning through cinematic language
Miley Tunnecliffe’s debut feature Proclivitas opens with a quote (in Latin then English) by Cicero which is essentially the case of what is good is “inclination” and the case of what is evil is “procl…
The Plague declares itself as a nerve-wracking coming of age classic
When I was quite young a teacher related the story of the practice in some Aboriginal groups known as the “Pointed bone also known as “Kurdaitcha”. The accused person would have a bone pointed at them…
The Mountain Bride (Vermiglio) is a Rich Tapestry of Human Sensibility
Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio uses Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ as one of its musical motifs. Cesare (Tommaso Ragno) the patriarch of the large Catholic Grazaidei family spends his money on phonograph rec…