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More One of the cornerstone greats of Australian Cinema. A rel pre-cursor to other dramas of their ilk such as ANIMAL KINGDOM.
David Wenham (in the role he originated on stage) has rarely been better - seething anger and bristling with violent momentum.
It flits back and forth through its own timeline, sometimes without warning, which only adds to the terrific sense of tension. Edited and shot with so much empathy to those responding to the violence and really concentrates on…
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Hooptober 5.0 Film #9
1977, USA
Utterly mesmerising and unique.
Packs so much into every frame and incites the viewer to bring as much of themselves to each viewing as it does in telling its story.
Absolute optimal viewing conditions tonight - off a beautifully aged print, in a cinema with an audience who fully appreciates it, with a couple of (very minor) projection flubbs - it became its own entity that was fully contained in the space as a work of art.
Fucking perfect.
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