Director Jasmin Tarasin weaves richly layered moments between mother and son – and darker flashbacks to what they left behindThere’s something instantly unsettling about seeing a fully dressed person underwater – a vi...
See moreDirector Jasmin Tarasin weaves richly layered moments between mother and son – and darker flashbacks to what they left behind
There’s something instantly unsettling about seeing a fully dressed person underwater – a visual motif perhaps most memorably deployed in The Piano, with Holly Hunter pulled into the ocean in full Victorian garb.
The domestic abuse-themed Australian drama Life Could Be a Dream opens with a similarly haunting vision: a woman in a white dress suspended beneath the surface, engulfed in drifting clouds of blackness, the frame bathed in murky blue tones.
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Director Jasmin Tarasin weaves richly layered moments between mother and son – and darker flashbacks to what they left behindThere’s something instantly unsettling about seeing a fully dressed person underwater – a vi...
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