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…

One good thing that came out of the long Covid lockdowns in Melbourne was Gus Berger’s decision to use his isolation time assembling this love story to the old buildings in Melbourne, present and lost to developers, and Melbourne’s cinemas in particular. 

These theatres, music halls and picture palaces are not part of my history as I arrived from Brisbane in the late ‘90s so I was fascinated to see his archival footage and photographs and hear the history told…