Australia 2000Directed by
Daniel Nettheim86 minutes
Rated MAReviewed byBernard Hemingway
Angst
Daniel Nettheim’s feature film debut, written by Anthony O’Connor, tries hard to repeat the success of
Love And Other Catastrophes (1996), re-imagining that film's characters as twenty-something slackers shacked up in the usual shabby share house in Sydney’s Kings Cross. To this is added a good measure of would-be Kevin Smith-ish hipness with contrived, verbose dialogue and stereotypical characters into which the cast are unable to inject any life and a self-reflexive tone that might only appeal to an audience who are similarly self-preoccupied. The result was doomed to languish on the video store shelves with
True Love And Chaos (1997) and
Strange Planet (1999) and other similar failed returns to the
LAOC well.
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