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LOOKING FOR GRACE

Sue Brooks (Director), Odessa Young (Actor), Terry Norris (Actor) Format: DVD

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Actors: Odessa Young, Terry Norris, Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell
Directors: Sue Brooks
Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 4 (This version of the DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Madman
DVD Release Date: 22 Jun 2016
Run Time: 97 minutes
Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item
ASIN: B01H4F50TE
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 38,029 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #26716 in Movies (Movies & TV)

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The long-awaited new film from Sue Brooks, Looking for Grace is an intimate, funny and profoundly moving story about the complexities of family life. When rebellious 16-year-old Grace (Odessa Young) takes off, her exasperated mum and dad (Radha Mitchell and Richard Roxburgh) enlist the help of a close-to-retirement detective and begin the long drive from Perth out to the West Australian wheat-belt to try to find her. On the journey, the two must confront the realities of their changing relationship to one another and to their daughter... Wry, intriguing and poignant, Brooks' unflinching reflection on the disruptive effects of both adolescence and middle-age boasts her trademark sense of character, acerbic humour and eye for the hypnotic rhythms of Australia's regional landscapes. Innovatively structured to incrementally reveal each character's journey and secrets from numerous vantage points, Looking for Grace is ultimately a beautiful, bold and unmistakably Australian story that reminds us that life is precious, and can change in the blink of an eye.

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john fowlesse

Two Stars

22 March 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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I turned this off half way through the movie

Mark ODwyer

A movie of quiet discoveries

15 March 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

The title of Looking for Grace is double-edged. How? Well, that is part of the intrigue of this fine film.

Grace disappears from her home in the suburbs of Perth. So does a stash of her father's money. Has something terrible happened, a break-and-enter gone wrong or even a kidnapping? As she is classed only as 'missing' by the police they give no help. Her distraught parents hire an aged private detective, who turns out to not be as entirely shaky and hopeless as he looks. Together they drive hundreds of kilometres into the Wheat Belt of Western Australia to find her.

We return to some scenes from the viewpoint of different characters, so that the impact each time differs. (There is a Japanese movie of the 1950's famous for first doing this, but I cannot remember it's name). The deliberately fractured narrative is a risk: it might have only confused the viewer. But in fact it draws us in and presents us with an intriguing jigsaw of private lives, and a growing understanding of this family in crisis.

Looking for Grace has no heroes, just ordinary people and multiple journeys, all the characters in search of something elusive in their lives - they hardly know what. The screenplay is wry, almost Pinteresque, about human behaviour. We shift from the teen lust of the early scenes to middle-aged marital angst to unexpected comedic moments to secrets clumsily revealed over the plastic tablecloth of a drab cafe. The keen observation of the awkward ways that anxious people rub up against each other will not appeal to everyone. I loved it.

I live in Western Australia where the story was filmed, and I particularly liked Sue Brooks treatment of our vast country and the long hypnotic journeys needed to get to anywhere at all, and even that might only be a shabby hamlet* . Many people get impatient with such journeys ('Are we there yet?') but Australians, even soft city dwellers like me, never tire of the Big Sky country. Perhaps those who love the plains and prairies of Canada, Argentina and central USA will best understand. Our best film makers turn our 'boring' expanses into a dreamlike quality, a suggestion of timelessness, of the vastness of the universe. Director Sue Brooks and cinematographer Katie Milwright have done that here. (*Western Australia is four times the size of Texas.)

I am not a fan of crash-bang overblown movies. They slam noise and images into the viewer; they treat you as a passive thing and don't let you participate. But I realise it is easier - and more lucrative - to make that sort of entertainment than to create quiet movies of character and humanity. These require not just fine acting but a great script which leaves enough spaces to draw in the viewer. It's far harder to get these made. When they are made, and I have the good fortune to see them, I rejoice. I hope you will too.

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Dee J.

A story of what REALLY happens in some families.

31 October 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

An interestingly-done film which focuses on the primary subject from different angles and perspectives. Just when you think you know everything going on, the film adds another dimension. Certainly a believable story, with fine acting from the entire cast and an ending you DIDN'T expect.

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