Vince Colosimo

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Lantana Review - Twenty Years On, Ray Lawrence's Film Becomes a Reflective Drama for Our Current Times

Lantana Review - Twenty Years On, Ray Lawrence's Film Becomes a Reflective Drama for Our Current Times

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, I finally got around to watching Lantana. Released in 2001, this is a tragi-romance which surrounds an ensemble of couples whose relationships are either withering or dead. The pandemic taught me not to desire touch or seek intimacy, as we were mandated by t…

Lantana Review: Ray Lawrence's Masterpiece

Lantana Review: Ray Lawrence's Masterpiece

Ray Lawrence’s Lantana felt like an anomaly in the year it came out. Here was an era where Australian films attempted to emulate The Castle and Chopper in various ways – there was a heavy lean towards…