Rachael Blake

  • Julia Leigh – Sleeping Beauty (2011)

    2011-2020ArthouseAustraliaDramaJulia Leigh

    Lucy is a young university student possessed by a kind of radical passivity. She lets a flip of a coin decide the outcome of a random sexual encounter and she displays an uncomplaining patience when facing the repetitions of her various menial jobs that fund her studies. One day she answers an ad in the student newspaper and interviews for a job to be a lingerie waitress. But she is secretly being initiated into a world of strange new work; one where she will have to give into absolute submission to her clients by being sedated; becoming a Sleeping Beauty. Eventually this unnerving experience begins to bleed into her daily life and she finally develops the will to break the spell by discovering what happens to her while she sleeps. With a fearless performance by Browning, Leigh creates a bold cinematic vision; one where Lucy, both in her clandestine sexual adventures and in her mundane daily existence, lives with the same unflinching and brutal honesty.Read More »

  • Gaylene Preston – Perfect Strangers (2003)

    2001-2010DramaGaylene PrestonNew ZealandThriller

    Synopsis
    When Melanie goes home from the pub with a handsome stranger, she’s captivated by his charm and attentiveness.
    He sails her away to his ‘castle’- a rundown shack on a deserted island. But when seduction becomes deception and passion becomes possession, Melanie realizes that she has been kidnapped.
    Torn between fear and desire, Melanie must escape – but her ardent admirer has other plans.Read More »

  • Alkinos Tsilimidos – Tom White (2004)

    2001-2010Alkinos TsilimidosAustraliaDrama

    Synopsis by Mark Deming
    A man on the edge of collapse falls into a well of despair in this psychological drama from Australia. Tom White (Colin Friels) is an architect who is emotionally reaching the end of his rope. Edgy, confused, and losing touch with reality, White finds himself obsessively working on a project from which he was removed weeks before, and his hands shake so badly he can barely hold a pencil. Tom’s superiors suggest he should spend a few days away from the office to regain his bearing, but instead of returning home to his wife (Rachael Blake) and children, he goes on a bender. Read More »

  • Kenneth Glenaan – Summer (2008)

    Drama2001-2010Kenneth GlenaanUnited Kingdom
    Summer (2008)
    Summer (2008)

    Quote:
    Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is their friendship and for Shaun his first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and takes Daz with him. Shaun has twelve years to reflect on an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty. But Daz’s imminent death forces Shaun to go on a journey to confront his past. This is the story of a man full of intelligence and promise struggling to reclaim his life.Read More »

  • Ray Lawrence – Lantana (2001)

    2001-2010AustraliaDramaMysteryRay Lawrence

    The relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman’s body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.Read More »

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