Review of The Eye of the Storm (2011) by Serge L — 11 Sep 2017

Apparently everybody fucking hates this movie, though for reasons I can't quite grasp. Maybe I'm crazy, but to me it felt like Schepisi had total control over his tone; it had that great feeling of a serious drama that makes one laugh in every scene (extremely rare in modern Australian cinema, where grimness rules), and then by the end I was in tears.

And the acting is uniformly terrific, especially the supporting cast (Robyn Nevin has one particularly excellent scene reacting to an unwelcome revelation). I mean, I don't expect my tastes to line up with the consensus every time, but I'm really surprised how reviled and ignored this movie is.