Sometimes it just clicks - Miles Franklin, Gillian Armstrong, Margaret Fink, Don McAlpine, Eleanor Witcombe, Luciana Arrighi (the designer). And the cast - Wendy Hughes, Patricia Kennedy, Robert Grubb and Peter Witcombe offering solid support but Judy Davis and Sam Neill are the X factor.
It's period so would be expensive but only has a few locations so wasn't uber uber expensive.
It's full of so many smart decisions which other filmmakers should follow - yes, it's about a person's "arc" but her arc is dramatised in the form of a romance, it has a romance, it has comic relief from Robert Grubb and nice costumes, it moves, it doesn't go for too long.
Davis is stunningly good. Neil excellent too. Strong ending, very well done. Simply better that a woman directed - it gets the nuances, the guy has balls. What a shame Fink, Armstrong and Witcombe didn't collaborate again.
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