| Reference Type |
Screen International
Screen Director "Newsletter of the Australian Screen Directors Association"
newspaper
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| Title |
Radiance |
| Author(s) | Sandy George,Jane Mills |
| Page Number |
10 |
| Comments |
Jane Mills is the head of screen studies at the Australian Film Television and Radio School. She provides an insighful and thoughtful review of "Radiance". A very inspiring piece of writing. |
| Synopsis |
The review is insightful, it points to sisters and the complexities of female sibling rivalry using comparisons with other Australian films like "The Last Days of Chez Nous" and "Sweetie" which creates interesting parallels. Presenting universal themes set amongst an Australian political landscape struggling with the implications of reconciliation. It goes on credit Perkins with a "startingly confident film from the confines of a stage-play."
There is some reference to the mother figure as well as the undeniably dark themes of domestic violence , racial and religious intolerance, madness , rape , sexual abuse and lies yet combined with a seemingly effortless humour which does not swamp the film in grief. Jane describes Trisha Morton-Thomas's soliloquy as unutterably moving. |
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