Tag: Adelaide Film Festival
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Botox’s false hope: A film promising to make you your best self
Influencers and wellness movements are selling false hope behind Botox, exercise regimes and LED face masks. This idea is at the crux of a new film project from the Adelaide Film Festival’s Expand Lab called 5 STEPS FOR BETTER LIVING, MAXIMUM GAINS AND MANIFESTING YOUR MOST OPTIMISED SELF!! Much of the show’s content, as evident…
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Film review: Kangaroo Island
The action begins in Los Angeles, where actor Lou Wells (Rebecca Breeds) is fast approaching rock-bottom. After a promising start in Hollywood with a role on a soap, she’s now broke and living on her ex-boyfriend’s couch, and her agent has dropped her. At the climax of a day that couldn’t get much worse, Lou…
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Film Festival review: We Bury The Dead
These are very impressive zombies. Something about the clackety-clack sound of them gnashing their teeth is particularly inspired. Also, they ooze. Zak Hilditch is the latest Australian director to deliver an international horror movie that plays around with genre tropes. While not up there with the great zombie apocalypse of World War Z (2013), which…
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Film Festival review: I Am the River, The River is Me
“The river is the biggest player in who I am,” says Māori elder Ned Tapa. “Our trip is about us as people coming together; it’s about saving rivers, saving the planet.” It’s hard to imagine anyone who watches this film disagreeing that the Whanganui River is worthy of saving. Flowing across 290km through the heart…
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Film Festival review: Blitz
In Occupied City, released last year, director Steve McQueen documented to the point of exhaustion the fate of houses and public spaces in Amsterdam during German occupation. The weight of the stories, based on a book by his Dutch wife, chronicled the physical and psychological impact of the Nazi presence in Amsterdam. McQueen lives there…
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Film Festival review: Emilia Pérez
In Emilia Pérez‘s plot with a lot, Rita (Zoe Saldaña) is a talented lawyer in Mexico City whose good work goes unnoticed, so she thinks, until she gets a message to meet a stranger at a news stand. Nearing 40 and jaded with her circumstances, she goes, and is then whisked off to meet the…
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Film Festival review: The Correspondent
It is one thing to know that Australian journalist Peter Greste was arrested and imprisoned in Egypt while covering for Al Jazeera a military coup in Cairo over Christmas in 2013. It is another to experience it through Greste’s eyes as he opens the door of his room at the Marriott Hotel to the Egyptian…
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Film star Lars Eidinger on Dying, kangaroos and the secret of his acting success
Lars Eidinger, 48, is a formidable actor who is perhaps most famous for his audacious work with Berlin’s Schaubühne Theatre, although he also performs in movies and television series. While we are meeting at the Berlin Film Festival to discuss his role as an orchestra conductor in Matthias Glasner’s Dying, a family drama that is…
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Kangaroo Island sets the scene for Film Festival gala screening
Timothy David’s film about a fraught family reunion on Kangaroo Island showcases the South Australian island’s enviable coastal lifestyle – including a house with private beachfront whose location must remain secret. David, an acclaimed writer and director, returned after 20 years in New York to make Kangaroo Island with his Canadian wife and scriptwriter Sally…
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Inside this year’s stellar line-up of premieres at the Adelaide Film Festival
ANORA From acclaimed director Sean Baker comes his newest film, Anora. The film has garnered wide-spread attention after winning the Palme d’Or for this year. Catch the premiere of Anora at the Capri Theatre on October 24. As a reimaging of the cinematic classic Pretty Woman, Anora is a dark tragicomedy that revels in its…