I'm going to go watch it in the East Village this Friday. Thanks for posting this!

Watched this other day [black balloon].
This movie claimed a record 6 or 7 australian film institute awards, praised as masterpiece by the likes of various film reviewers round the country [Margaret Pomeranze and David Stratton] , hailed as THE great recent australian acting experience as well revelatory wonderland and enlightening drama too.

When really this film is little more than a reasonably well acted somewhat Melodramatic tele-movie [nothing wrong with 'melodrama', except when it goes unrealized as such by its film director] with a very politically correct special interest agenda [ie., more WASPY feminism hiding behind the allusion of appealing for understanding of mental imbecility] .

As well it had typically the call girl of australian bleeding hearts everywhere, our own talented and somewhat snake-eyed actress - Toni Collette.

Seriously What has happened to australian arts and cinema in the last few decades.

Its utterly up to its underpants and dominated with mushy feel good nonsense, allowing only very very infrequently something from left of centre [GETTING SQUARE, LANTANA, PROPOSITION] to somehow escape these nepotist, fawning, irrelevant, self-serving artistic adjudicatores/Electives CLUTCHES!!

Think its disgraceful that Australian potential for creating truly smart and adventurous cinema has been largely undermined by self-interested Philistines [in actual fact] that really and fundamentally could not give a damn about intelligent or moving arts and cinema [especially if it seeks to go beyond their self-imposed little agenda's] and any, especially those that practice art , if any of these dare criticise and make mention of their thoughts, these face a really hostile undercurrent of blacklisting.

This syndrome or clique must be challenged and overturned.

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