Heavy Here and Now: Alena Lodkina's 'Strange Colours'

Critiquing gender without merely demonising its male characters or victimising its female lead, and eschewing Australian cinema's penchant for infusing depictions of the landscape with menace, Strange Colours is an example of inventive local filmmaking. Adrian Martin explores how this cryptic, impressionistic film about a daughter and father uses subtlety and silence to craft complex drama.

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Daniel P Jones, place, parochialism, rural, masculinity, ocker.