Adapted from Kirsty Gunn's acclaimed novel, New Zealand director Christine Jeff's debut feature is a small masterpiece of atmosphere. Jeff shifts Gunn's original setting from an English lakeside retreat to a small New Zealand beach community where, in 1972, 13-year-old Janey (Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki) and her family are spending the summer. Janey's parents, Kate (Sarah Peirse) and Ed (Alistair Browning), spend long, hot afternoons in the yard, slowly getting sloshed on whisky and lemon, and the evenings dancing to rock music and getting even drunker at nightly parties. Janey, who's pretty much left alone to care for her little brother, Jim (Aaron Murphy), watches he...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
92 mins