The metropolis at the centre of writer-director Miro Bilbrough's feature debut is not the European city of canals but our own harbour-side city. Sydney forms a brightly textured backdrop to this idiosyncratic father-daughter tale. Venice is a poet with a penchant for jotting words on sticky notes and picking the wrong guy. Her ex-hippie dad Arthur is in town to teach a writing course and he's sleeping on her sofa; it's the closest they've been in years. Arthur is more focussed on what he's eating than his daughter - except when she's shagging in the bed only metres away. Much has been left unsaid over the years, and as words begin to bubble up, Venice lurches from one misstep to another. Alice McConnell (September, Jewboy) shines as the golden-haired Venice and veteran actor Garry McDonald (The Norman Gunston Show, Mother & Son) is fittingly awkward as her undemonstrative father in this touching and often humorous drama.
2 min 30 sec
Views
3,071
Posted On
July 24, 2012
Miro Bilbrough
Writer
Miro Bilbrough
Studio
Independent
Release
2012
Alice McConnell
Garry McDonald
Simon Stone
Katie Wall
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