Babyteeth

DIRECTOR SHANNON MURPHY on her bruising-but-beautiful Australian drama, about a teen’s final days with cancer.

DANCING WITH DEATH

opens with an off-kilter meet cute. Moses (Toby Wallace), sporting a floral shirt, rat-tail and serious case of pinkeye, tumbles past Milla (Eliza Scanlen) and nearly collides with a moving train. “That was the first time we were establishing Moses’ look, as this very sexual thing that’s just come into Milla’s life,” Murphy explains. “He gives her this electricity that she hasn’t felt before.” Wallace — who Murphy discovered in the TV adaptation of — was cast