Friday night saw the Australian premiere of Looking for Grace at the St.George OpenAir Cinema.
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young, Kenya Pearson and Harry Richardson joined director Sue Brooks on the red carpet.
The cast were joined at the opening-night party by Simon Baker, Rebecca Rigg, Miranda Tapsell, Matt Day, April Rose Pengilly, Brenna Harding, Henry Nixon, Raechelle Banno, Alex Cubis, Tessa de Josselin, and Sean Keenan..
St.George OpenAir
Radha Mitchell, Sue Brooks, Harry Richardson, Odessa Young, Richard Roxburgh, Kenya Pearson.
Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Kenya Pearson
Harry Richardson and Odessa Young...
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young, Kenya Pearson and Harry Richardson joined director Sue Brooks on the red carpet.
The cast were joined at the opening-night party by Simon Baker, Rebecca Rigg, Miranda Tapsell, Matt Day, April Rose Pengilly, Brenna Harding, Henry Nixon, Raechelle Banno, Alex Cubis, Tessa de Josselin, and Sean Keenan..
St.George OpenAir
Radha Mitchell, Sue Brooks, Harry Richardson, Odessa Young, Richard Roxburgh, Kenya Pearson.
Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Kenya Pearson
Harry Richardson and Odessa Young...
- 1/12/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Odessa Young and Richard Roxburgh in Looking For Grace - 'For once the fractured narrative approach really does work.' The scarcity of Us indies at this year’s Venice Film Festival throws an interesting light on two Australian entries – Sue Brooks’ Official Competition film Looking For Grace and Simon Stone’s The Daughter, which is screening in Venice Days. With just a few tweaks, both could easily become Sundance competition entries, dealing with family skeletons in the suburbs and the sticks respectively. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, but Brooks’ film is perhaps the most satisfying, an elliptical road movie that begins with the title character (Odessa Young) taking a trip across country with her best friend Sappho (Kenya Pearson).
Where Grace is going is initially withheld, instead we see a teenage love affair unfold as she meets a mysterious stranger who seduces her and drives a wedge between the two friends.
Where Grace is going is initially withheld, instead we see a teenage love affair unfold as she meets a mysterious stranger who seduces her and drives a wedge between the two friends.
- 9/6/2015
- by Damon Wise
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Following up on her 1997 comedy Road to Nhill and her 2003 drama Japanese Story, Sue Brooks's Looking for Grace, starring Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young, Terry Norris, Harry Richardson and Kenya Pearson, has premiered in Venice and now heads to Toronto. In the Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney finds that it "opens strongly, full of poignancy and promise, training its intimate gaze on the teenager of the title, who has run away from her family home to cross the sprawling flat wheat belt of inland Western Australia. But when the focus widens to consider the perspective of other messy lives affected by Grace's flight, the tone lurches into awkwardness, undercutting the emotional impact." We're collecting more reviews and we've got a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 9/5/2015
- Keyframe
Following up on her 1997 comedy Road to Nhill and her 2003 drama Japanese Story, Sue Brooks's Looking for Grace, starring Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young, Terry Norris, Harry Richardson and Kenya Pearson, has premiered in Venice and now heads to Toronto. In the Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney finds that it "opens strongly, full of poignancy and promise, training its intimate gaze on the teenager of the title, who has run away from her family home to cross the sprawling flat wheat belt of inland Western Australia. But when the focus widens to consider the perspective of other messy lives affected by Grace's flight, the tone lurches into awkwardness, undercutting the emotional impact." We're collecting more reviews and we've got a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 9/5/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
★★★☆☆ Cut-up family tragicomedy Looking for Grace (2015) is Sue Brooks' fifth feature film and premièred in competition at the Venice Film Festival today. Odessa Young plays Grace, a young girl who for motives unknown has decided to go walkabout with her friends Sapph (Kenya Pearson). Travelling across West Australia on a bus, they meet up with a young chap Jamie (Harry Richardson), who takes a shine to Grace, much to the chagrin of Sapph who decides to head back home. Things don't quite work out the way Grace was hoping and she is left without money in the outback, but just when things look to be heading a familiarly depressing route, mum and dad turn up in the family car.
This anticlimax is only the beginning as the film divides up achronologically into distinct chapters which each follow a separate character, often revisiting scenes from new perspectives. Such narrative play feels a bit thin,...
This anticlimax is only the beginning as the film divides up achronologically into distinct chapters which each follow a separate character, often revisiting scenes from new perspectives. Such narrative play feels a bit thin,...
- 9/5/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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