“I didn’t expect liking your husband would hurt this much” 

What a gut punching ending, feels like my heart was ripped from my chest & placed back together again. Greta Lee & Teo Yoo give some one of the best performances of the year 2 raw and so authentic characters with actors with the most insane chemistry I’ve seen in a while. I need to analyze this screenplay. Technical aspects this is stunning I loved the cinematography. Celine Songs directorial debut couldn’t…

I kept waiting for something drastic. I thought the film was building towards something explosive. I thought the father might walk out and never come back. I thought he might die and that's why the need to recollect, the need to see in between the lines, to see what wasn't explicitly expressed. I thought we'd get an answer, but we don't. We know he's gone, but why or how is never explained. The two go back home from the vacation…

Have never had such a full-bodied reaction to a film. Through haunting sound design and tension that rarely gets relieved, I felt on the edge of a panic attack for the entire film. Overwhelmed by this exploration of Australian crime and bleakness of evil that lurks in our country. 

Despite not even showing one frame of grizzly or gruesome imagery, this disturbed me more than any equivalent works in this field of genre. All achieved through powerful cinematic technique. 

Acute…

can guarantee no other film at miff will provide the fleeting spectacle of seeing the back of my head projected on an imax screen.... dreams do come true!!!!

alena lodkina is one of the most exciting aussie filmmakers to crop up in ages, but if you saw strange colours then you already knew that. obsessed with the way she so precisely captures the soul of these rich, insular worlds on screen, and the myopic characters inside them who yearn for…