SUNFLOWER Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Gabriel Carrubba Stars: Liam Mollica, Luke J Morgan, Daniel Halmarick, Sal Galofaro, Elias Anton. As with Of An Age, last year’s opening film at MIFF, Sunflower is a locally produced gay coming of age drama and love story that has a deep personal resonance for its director and is informed by his own experiences. After a couple of short films …
OF AN AGE
Of An Age Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Goran Stolevski Stars: Elias Anton, Thom Green, Hattie Hook. The opening night film of the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2022 was Of An Age, a queer themed drama and coming of age tale that seems to draw inspiration from the likes of Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset and the classic Brief Encounter. The film is set in 1999 and centres …
AUSTRALIA DAY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Kriv Stenders Stars: Bryan Brown, Shari Sebbens, Sean Keenan, Miah Madden, Matthew Le Nevez, Elias Anton, Chris Haywood, Ernie Dingo, Kee Chan, Sam Cotton, Simon Elrahi, Jenny Wu. Director Kriv Stenders (Red Dog, etc) seems like he is trying to set up a series of films centred around significant national holidays. In 2007, he gave us the powerful but bleak, grim drama …
