Love Is in the Air: Wayne Blair's 'Top End Wedding' and the Rom-com's New Direction

Putting a refreshing local spin on a familiar genre, Top End Wedding embeds its love story into a search for a lost mother – and a longed-for country. By simultaneously employing and eschewing the hallmark formulas of the romantic comedy, this film proves itself a worthy Australian contribution to a new global trend in cinema, writes Jane Howard.

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