Image: Emu Runner. The Australian films are travelling with a limited range of stills.
The Australian features have all screened at TIFF. If you don’t look like a mainstream film, the print attention is pretty limited. Bread, meet butter.
Across a whole range of reviews, we keep seeing glancing references to script holes and rhythmic longeurs. Hotel Mumbai, Jirga and Emu Runner all excite the moral glands of some reviewers, which is interesting in itself. We live in questioning times.