Image: Undertow premieres at MIFF – the climax of a long journey for director Miranda Nation and producer Lyn Norfor.
The annual launch of the Melbourne International Film Festival Program is an absolute highpoint in the unending rollercoaster of cultural overconsumption that is winter in this city. Melbourne doesn’t really seem to grow from the Australian earth so much as rest gently on the fertile plains of the Kulin Nation, tethered carefully with knotted dreams. It somehow came loose from its European homeland and wandered south, and its citizens go in fear that the Northern Hemisphere might find it and tow it back.
