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Film: The White Ribbon
By Jana Perkovic • Aug 13th, 2009 • Section: Film
The White Ribbon
Melbourne International Film Festival
Tue 4 Aug, Sun 9 Aug
With his new film, Michael Haneke ploughs his customary fields of collective guilt, invididual crime, shrouds of secrecy and social dysfunction. Set in an Austrian village…
Film: Treeless Mountain
By Jana Perkovic • Aug 1st, 2009 • Section: Film
Treeless Mountain
Melbourne International Film Festival
Sun 26 July, Thu 30 July
Yet another gorgeous film on children, Treeless Mountain looks at two teeny tiny girls, whose mother drops them off to an aunt in the South Korean…
Film: Still Walking
By Jana Perkovic • Jul 29th, 2009 • Section: Film
Still Walking
Melbourne International Film Festival
Screening Wednesday July 29 at 12.15pm
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s films – a retrospective of which Melbourne International Film Festival presented in 2007 – all share a preoccupation with death and loss. His cinematic…
Preview: Focus on Girls 24/7
By Jana Perkovic • Jul 5th, 2009 • Section: Melbourne Talks
Focus on Girls 24/7 is in turns entertaining, infuriating and eye-opening: from somnambular victims of society to pragmatic bread-winners and defiant rebels, girlhood is examined in all its aspects.
Theatre: Oedipus – A Poetic Requiem
By Jana Perkovic • Oct 15th, 2008 • Section: Performance, Reviews
At its peaks, Oedipus, performed in a Brunswick garage, touches on theatre heaven. Although it requires a jump-start.
Theatre: The Heart of Another is a Dark Forest
By Jana Perkovic • Oct 6th, 2008 • Section: Performance, Reviews
Twelve Restless performers, with different levels and types of disability, are confronted with twelve fully-able Rawcus performers in this fascinating exploration of the mystery of the other.
Theatre: sKin
By Jana Perkovic • Sep 25th, 2008 • Section: Performance, Reviews
Understatement in theatre is a dangerous thing, and in sKin, the joint big themes of place, race, culture, intimacy and identity are reduced to a murmur in the background of an iceberg narrative.
Theatre: The Zombie State
By Jana Perkovic • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Section: Performance, Reviews
In its best moments, The Zombie State is Saturday night in the CBD. The production showcases the same barely controlled human grotesque, leaning on the zombie horror genre’s fear of the mindless crowd, and the collective loss of reason.
