Image: Rachel Taylor discovers the hot sky of 1959. Well, a studio version anyway.
There is a special challenge in period films set in times of major cultural change. They are even more interesting when the period is recent, and the generations in the audience will see it in different ways.
Ladies in Black is a fascinating example. The film is set in 1959, when director Bruce Beresford was at Sydney University, around the edges of the milieu. Madeleine St John was there too, long before she wrote the book in the 1990s on which this film is based.
