Lupita Nyong’o, Caliah Pinones, Vivienne Albany, Kim Thien Doan, and Diesel La Torraca in Little Monsters (2019). Also arguably the Australian film still of the year.
There is a special silvery sigh that came again and again across the assembled Melbourne International Film tragics as they were introduced to the 2019 program in the Forum Theatre earlier this week. It is a kind of astral choir, a shared exhalation, which combines young and old, male and female, farmers and hipsters.
