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Daughter
Australia 2016
produced by
Ivan Malekin, Tom Liddy (executive), Dinushi Dias (co), Sarah Jayne (co) for Nexus Production Group
directed by Sarah Jayne
starring Katherine Langford, Tara Jakszewicz (as Aisha Jakszewicz), Carolyn Rey, Senie Priti, Julia Vogl, Suzie Whyte, Laura Vine, Ben Rose, Robyn Duse, Tom Vogel, Ben Chisholm, Nathan Luke, Erin Connor, Davide Mollica
written by Sarah Jayne, songs by Malo Zima, Back Back Forward Back, Woodes x Eilkkle, Vast Hill, Leure, Martha Bean, John Dix
short
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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On first sight, these three women have nothing in common, there's
Scarlett (Katherine Langford), who's celebrating her 19th birthday with
her very best friends and a bit too much alcohol, also to forget her dire
situation at home, then there's Alethea (Carolyn Rey), who goes out with
her best friends on her hen night, and finally there's Jemma (Tara
Jakszewicz), a woman who has seen too much in life and still tries to make
good, even if that means working as a prostitute walking the streets,
relying on the one friend, Richard (Ben Rose), who hasn't given up on her
and provides her with protection, food, and the occasional drugs. And this
particular night, the three woman just roam the same area, which is
nothing but coincidence, and bump into each other without consequence. But
one of them won't survive the night, which gives the other two, meeting at
the scene of the crime rather by coincidence, something to think about,
because the victim could very much have been them as they walked by the
place that night - and to take things a little further, all three could
just be one and the same person at different stages in her life ...
The last line of above synopsis is admittedly my own
interpretation of things rather than that it literally happens in the
movie, but that's also the strength of Daughter, that it tells a
compelling story without spelling out every last letter, that it lets the
audience think on its own - which is of course helped by clever
storytelling that expertly weaves the three narrative threads into one
another, a subtle directorial effort and a solid cast. A very
interesting movie indeed!
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