Ryan Kwanten in Not
Suitable For Children. Filmmakers have taken chances with style and content
in this year's Sydney Film Festival says Festival Director Nashen Moodley.
Garry Maddox, The Sydney Morning Herald,
reports
A sexy comedy set in Sydney's inner west and
starring True Blood's Ryan Kwanten will open the Sydney Film Festival
next month.
Director Peter Templeman's Not Suitable
For Children has Kwanten playing a hedonistic twentysomething who becomes
obsessed with having children when diagnosed with testicular cancer.
Described by festival director Nashen Moodley
as capturing "the unique charms of Sydney's most bohemian suburbs",
the film also stars Sarah Snook, Ryan Corr and Bojana Novakovic.
It is Templeman's feature film debut after
his 2007 Oscar nomination for the short The Saviour.
The festival's competition, for
"courageous, audacious and cutting edge" filmmaking, features two
more new Australian films:
* In her follow-up to Somersault, director
Cate Shortland's coming-of-age tale Lore is about a teenager who takes
her four younger siblings on a precarious journey across Germany after World
War II. Adapted from Rachel Seiffert's novel The Dark Room, it stars
Saskia Rosendahl.
* Tony Krawitz's Dead Europe has Ewen
Leslie as a Sydney photographer returning to his family's ancestral home in
Greece to discover his late father's cursed past. Like the TV series The
Slap, it is based on a Christos Tsiolkas novel.
What looks like an intriguing competition
line-up also includes the Jack Kerouac adaptation On The Road from
director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries), the Oscar nominated
drama Monsieur Lazhar from Canada, the Taviani brothers' Berlin
prizewinner Caesar Must Die and a 320-minute, two-part Indian epic, Gangs
of Wasseypur, which is described as "an exhilarating tale of
vengeance" about the decades-long conflict between two violent families.
Moodley's first festival, which runs from
June 6 to 17, also features the premiere of the Pixar animated comedy The
Brave, with star Billy Connolly as special guest.
As well as a retrospective on master Italian
filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci that includes Last Tango In Paris, 1900 and
The Last Emperor, there are special presentations of new films from such
well-known directors as Michael Haneke (Amour), Ken Loach (The
Angels' Share), Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom) and Australia's
Rachel Perkins (Mabo).
The festival will close with American
director Colin Trevorrow's sci-fi comedy Safety Not Guaranteed, about
three cynical magazine staffers who investigate an ad that promises a time
travel adventure.
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