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Toomelah 2011
Ivan Sen's third feature is an unadorned coming of age film set in a remote Indigenous community in far north NSW.
The film follows a young boy navigating a town fraught by temporal gridlock: past scars of the stolen generation weigh heavily while in the present a small but intense turf war unfolds between rival drug dealers, the produce of which deeply impacts those in the surrounding area in one way or another. Like seemingly all of Sen's work, the…
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Mickey 17 2025
Bong Joon-ho's work has been engaging with the Hollywood Left tradition for a little while now, with films like Snowpiercer and Okja following in the footsteps of older classics like They Live! and newer pathbreakers like the Avatar series.
These are films that speak the language of exaggeration, which filters all the way from individual performances to the overall conceptual apparatus, which must be skillfully balanced to maintain equal parts metaphor and affect.
It's a reduction, but Bong's English language…
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Sweetie 1989
Simply the best Australian film. To draw Lynchian comparisons, while tempting, is to reproduce an artistic conservatism as this is something totally unique.
Nowhere else is the suburban condition approached so astutely. It's formal composition (cinematography and sound in particular) paradoxically contain moments of both certainty and ambiguity, mysticism and materiality, fantasy and truth.
One dreams of an artistic breakthrough like this, but as the film demonstrates it is indeed the dream itself which cannot be overcome.
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