20 TIME ADDICTS
Directed by: Sam Odlum
If Philip K Dick had grown up a junkie in the Australian suburbs he might have dreamt up something like Odlum’s debut feature, a tale of failed heists, temporal narcotics and generational dysfunction. There’s ambition and heart to outweigh the meagre budget, and through all the plot chicanery, things are kept on track by the bitter, bickering, perversely engaging Freya Tingley and Charles Grounds as a Gen Z Bill and Ted.
19 ONE FINE MORNING
Directed by: Eric Rohmer
Rohmer felt like the presiding spirit of so much of 2023 arthouse, most notably Mia Hansen-Løve’s , the modest story of a young widow juggling career, motherhood, an ailing father, and a fledgling affair with a man who can’t quite leave his wife. In précis it sounds mundane, but the quietly lyrical direction and Léa Seydoux, showing she’s much more than
