Greta Scacchi – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

RUN RABBIT RUN – Review by Susan Granger

July 5, 2023September 4, 2023 Susan Granger (Lily LaTorre, australian films, Daina Reid, Damon Herriman, Greta Scacchi, horror, Run Rabbit Run, Sarah Snook

If you’ve been intrigued by Sarah Snook as sly Shiv Roy on HBO’s Succession, you may find it interesting to see how she tackles a very different role in this Australian psychological thriller. She plays Sarah, a fertility doctor, raising her daughter Mia (Lily LaTorre) as a single mother in suburban Melbourne. Ever since her seventh birthday when she ‘rescued’ a white rabbit, precocious Mia seems to be acting strangely and attentive Sarah cannot figure out why there’s been such a change in her behavior.

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RUN RABBIT RUN – Review by Nadine Whitney

June 28, 2023September 4, 2023 Nadine Whitney (Lily LaTorre, australian films, Daina Reid, Damon Herriman, Greta Scacchi, horror, Run Rabbit Run, Sarah Snook

Run Rabbit Run is a clumsy attempt to capture maternal anxiety and the Gothic without fully fleshing out mood and atmosphere required and underwriting the protagonist (and ironically over-writing her in places). Run Rabbit Run could have benefitted from a tighter and more precise screenplay but instead meanders to an unsatisfactory conclusion that audiences most likely predicted before it happened, rendering the chill of it lukewarm at best.

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AWFJ Presents: THE WHITE KING – Review by Lonita Cook

September 23, 2022March 16, 2023 Lonita Cook Alex Helfrecht, awfj presents, Fiona Shaw, Greta Scacchi, György Dragomán, the white king

Frequently when we try to create perfection, something gruesome emerges instead. Unyielding, unforgiving. This is certainly the dystopian nature of the fictitious Homeland where Djata and his mother, Hannah, reside as outcasts after Djata’s father, Peter, is taken as a traitorous prisoner, punished for speaking out. This fairytale isn’t about the bullying fist of a shadowed government and a lean sense of personal autonomy but rather the lifting haze over a child’s consciousness as the authority of their parent’s word wears off. Djata is okay with the way of the world until his mother transforms from a mythological god in his eyes to a mere mortal who lies.