Love Without Limits: Disability, Illness and Romance in 'Standing Up for Sunny' and 'Cerulean Blue'

Cinematic depictions of disability are few and far between; responsible, authentic examples are even rarer. But two recent Australian rom-coms have taken up the mantle, dispensing with the genre's reductive tropes around sacrifice, struggle and being 'saved' in favour of complex stories about vulnerable humanity, writes Alistair Baldwin.

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