gillian armstrong, dir
judy davis plays a remarkably strident young widow
with a drinking problem, among others, and who has
recently lost the latest in a string of meaningless jobs as she
travels aimlessly the coast of australia...she has been ousted
from her spot as a back-up singer for an elvis impersonator,
when her car breaks down, quite coincidentally, at the shore
village where her daughter is being raised by her mother-in -law.
there is, of course, the expected tension between the two
as to davis' questionable worth, having left her child when
the son/father/husband died suddenly. she lives in a bubble
of denial and the daughter who never knew her, happens upon
davis in a drunken stupor. they bond , neither with any idea about
the other's identity, of course.......and so a relationship ensues.
it is shot with impeccable taste and drawn in harrowing emotonal
strokes..but i love judy davis who also did my brilliant career for
armstrong...( she came into her commercial own with little women)
anyway, that's it. |
