A disappointing Australian film from Sue Brooks, the director of the excellent, award-winning drama Japanese Story.
A rebellious daughter from a middle-class Perth family, Grace is heading on a bus into the vast wheat belt of Western Australia. Told from different perspectives, the story, like the landscape, is flat and monotonous – Grace may have stolen money from her father (a wasted Richard Roxburgh – Moulin Rouge! Van Helsing) but who really cares? Mom is having problems with the cleaning contractors and whether the sofa qualifies as one or two pieces of furniture.
The fractured storytelling may eventually come together – but I’d given up long before then.
Rating: 40%
Director: Sue Brooks (Japanese Story, Road to Nhill)
Writer: Sue Brooks
Main cast: Odessa Young (The Daughter, TV’s Tricky Business), Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge, Van Helsing), Radha Mitchell (London Has Fallen, The Waiting City)
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