Empire Australasia

HEARTS AND BONES

OUT 30 APRIL CERT M / 110 MINS

DIRECTOR Ben Lawrence

CAST Hugo Weaving, Andrew Luri, Hayley McElhinney, Bolude Watson

PLOT Dan Fisher (Weaving), a war photographer suffering from PTSD, meets Sudanese refugee Sebastian Ahmed (Luri), who’s struggling with his own war-related loss and pain. A friendship is born through their shared experiences, but it’s sorely tested when both men are confronted by shocking revelations about their past.

THE CLICHÉ GOES that a single photograph is worth a thousand words — there is tremendous power in a photo that mere words cannot come close to touching. In Ben Lawrence’s masterful feature film

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