CELIA
EXTRAS
▶ RELEASED OUT NOW!
1989 | 15 | Blu-ray
▶ Director Ann Turner
▶ Cast Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Victoria Longley, Mary-Anne Fahey
released as on US VHS, this Australian et al, it belongs with and in that subgenre of films which slip between reality and a child’s fantasies. And the fantasy side – with nine-year-old Celia interacting with her dead grandmother and menaced by the Hobyahs, fairytale monsters from a favourite book – does not intrude that often. Though ultimately, it does so in a big way…
