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Reviews
Look Both Ways (2005)
Wanted to watch this one all over again...immediately
What a wonderful life-affirming film. Happy, sad, so bloody real. Brilliant filming, animation and first class performances. It is good to be truly moved by a film without feeling like you have been manipulated, to see good acting without any 'star performances' overwhelming the whole thing, and to find yourself talking and thinking about it for days afterward with delight. This has re-ignited my belief in the strength of Australian filmmakers. I fervently hope that Sara (who gets a particularly moving performance from her husband in this movie), goes on to make more feature length movies. (Apparently her previous films have all been animated shorts). She has that great ability to tell a universal human story with an artists eye, through all those perfect little details of scenery, set, facial expression, props - all memorably enhanced by her unusual touch in using animation to convey thoughts and emotions. Go see it.
The Corporation (2003)
Thought provoking, illuminating and throughly absorbing
This truly is an excellent documentary - quite the best that I have seen in what has turned out to be a great year for documentaries - Fahrenheit 9/11, Touching the Void and the one about the family accused of child sex abuse, the name of which I have forgotten!
The film covers a much bigger topic than most and manages to do it in an illuminating, absorbing and totally compelling way. You leave the cinema bursting with many different urges - to make everyone else see it.... to discuss all of the amazing things you have learned with them......to do something to help try and change the psychopathic corporation.
It deserves all the many audience awards it has won. A great example of how to make what could have been a dreary polemic super-interesting.