Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login There seem to be only two certainties about contemporary, non-Indigenous Australian films: they will be dark and unpleasant, and greeted with exaggerated enthusiasm that quickly subsides into silence. The latest movie to test this thesis is Birdeater , written and directed by Jack Clark and Jim Weir, which won the audience award at last year’s Sydney Film Festival.
There’s a strong whiff of ‘arthouse’ about this film, which is shot from a bewildering array of camera angles, with equally arty editing and gothic lighting. It begins with a hazy sequence in which two young people appear to be madly in love. Lots of staring rapturously into each other’s eyes, grappling beneath the sheets.
.. I could have sworn there was vaseline on the camera lens.
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