APR30

Postcards from the Edge

There's nothing like a good beach side holiday, until you loose something, like um, one of your friends!

Actors Kieran Darcy-Smith and his wife Felicity Price had always wondered about the mystery behind real life missing person stories and how that flows on to affect the people around them.  So they sat down - together! - to write a film about it.  The result is the gripping drama Wish You Were Here.

Film reviewer Alice Tynan and I sat down with Kieran to find out exactly how that writing process works (no saucepans were thrown during the making off this movie!), and why Joel Edgerton was begging to be involved.


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FEB23

Status update: It's Complicated

The fall out from a divorce is never limited to the separating couple. Indeed, as Asghar Farhadi’s intricate and beautiful film reveals, the consequences can be as unforeseen as they are heartrending.

Superlative filmmaking on all levels, this universal tale is made more striking for its modern Iranian setting, as the couple’s impasse - to stay in Iran or leave for the West – unfolds to include economic and religious complexities…with not one but two families drawn into A Separation.

Join me, Alice Tynan, The Sci Fi Show’s Oscar Hillerstrom and Trespass Magazine’s Beth Wilson as we band together to talk separation, screenwriting and the stunning naturalism that Farhadi and his cast achieve in this gem of a film.


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