![]() ![]() ![]() Using the familiar framing device of the outback landscape, she tackled common themes of alienation and belonging with uncommon imagination. Russia-born Lodkina proved she could breathe new life into our cinema's vernacular back in 2017 with her debut, Strange Colours, about a young woman's homecoming to the opal mining town of Lightning Ridge in northern New South Wales. Loading.Īnd yet, the film has a distinctive quality too, derived from its contemporary Australian setting and characters. It's a testament not just to its excellence but to its universal themes. It's travelled the world since, showing at Marrakech International Film Festival and most recently the New Directors/New Films festival in New York, where it garnered glowing reviews. The second feature from the Melbourne-based writer-director arrives in limited release on Australian screens 10 months after its world premiere at the prestigious Locarno Film Festival and its local debut at last year's Melbourne International Film Festival (which co-financed it through its Premiere Fund for new Australian features). ![]() Alena Lodkina's dreamlike film, about a pivotal friendship between two young Melbourne women, has a poetic and sometimes surreal narrative style that conveys a vividly emotional take on the world it reveals profound truths about the characters, even if the precise detail of their story remains slightly – and deliciously – cryptic. ![]()
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