Additional deals closed on Luc Picard’s action crime drama ’Confessions Of A Hitman’.
Montreal-based Sphere Films, formerly WaZabi Films, has closed the US and key territories on Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ feature directorial debut It Is In Us All, which won a special jury prize at SXSW earlier this year, and Confessions Of A Hitman.
It Is In Us All, financed by Screen Ireland and starring Cosmo Jarvis, Campbell-Hughes, Claes Bang and newcomer Rhys Mannion, has gone to Blue Finch Film Releasing in the UK, Pivot Pictures in Australia and New Zealand and Wolfe Releasing in the US.
The film won...
Montreal-based Sphere Films, formerly WaZabi Films, has closed the US and key territories on Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ feature directorial debut It Is In Us All, which won a special jury prize at SXSW earlier this year, and Confessions Of A Hitman.
It Is In Us All, financed by Screen Ireland and starring Cosmo Jarvis, Campbell-Hughes, Claes Bang and newcomer Rhys Mannion, has gone to Blue Finch Film Releasing in the UK, Pivot Pictures in Australia and New Zealand and Wolfe Releasing in the US.
The film won...
- 5/18/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Here's the reason why I decided to rent this Australian film: the DVD artwork which features the lovely Tahyna Tozzi. Speaking about the plot, Dean O'Flaherty's Beautiful is not the most original thriller set in suburbia that one will see. With that said, the only good thing about this film is definitely the cast's performance.
While the film was shot in Adelaide, the story takes place in an Australian suburb called Sunshine Hills. Behind its veneer of perfection, the town is shaken by three teenage girls' mysterious disappearance. Besides, the prime suspects are the owners (Asher Keddie and Socratis Otto) of the house number 46 to be behind these abductions.
After she had broken up with her boyfriend, Suzy (Tahyna Tozzi), the girl-next-door of every boy's dreams, persuades Daniel (Sebastian Gregory), a fourteen-year old boy and also her neighbour, to uncover the truth for her. Obviously, Suzy expects Daniel to do all the legwork,...
While the film was shot in Adelaide, the story takes place in an Australian suburb called Sunshine Hills. Behind its veneer of perfection, the town is shaken by three teenage girls' mysterious disappearance. Besides, the prime suspects are the owners (Asher Keddie and Socratis Otto) of the house number 46 to be behind these abductions.
After she had broken up with her boyfriend, Suzy (Tahyna Tozzi), the girl-next-door of every boy's dreams, persuades Daniel (Sebastian Gregory), a fourteen-year old boy and also her neighbour, to uncover the truth for her. Obviously, Suzy expects Daniel to do all the legwork,...
- 7/10/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Here's the reason why I decided to rent this Australian film: the DVD artwork which features the lovely Tahyna Tozzi. Speaking about the plot, Dean O'Flaherty's Beautiful is not the most original thriller set in suburbia that one will see. With that said, the only good thing about this film is definitely the cast's performance.
While the film was shot in Adelaide, the story takes place in an Australian suburb called Sunshine Hills. Behind its veneer of perfection, the town is shaken by three teenage girls' mysterious disappearance. Besides, the prime suspects are the owners (Asher Keddie and Socratis Otto) of the house number 46 to be behind these abductions.
After she had broken up with her boyfriend, Suzy (Tahyna Tozzi), the girl-next-door of every boy's dreams, persuades Daniel (Sebastian Gregory), a fourteen-year old boy and also her neighbour, to uncover the truth for her. Obviously, Suzy expects Daniel to do all the legwork,...
While the film was shot in Adelaide, the story takes place in an Australian suburb called Sunshine Hills. Behind its veneer of perfection, the town is shaken by three teenage girls' mysterious disappearance. Besides, the prime suspects are the owners (Asher Keddie and Socratis Otto) of the house number 46 to be behind these abductions.
After she had broken up with her boyfriend, Suzy (Tahyna Tozzi), the girl-next-door of every boy's dreams, persuades Daniel (Sebastian Gregory), a fourteen-year old boy and also her neighbour, to uncover the truth for her. Obviously, Suzy expects Daniel to do all the legwork,...
- 7/10/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Long before David Lynch’s brilliantly subversive Blue Velvet (the trend-setting and utterly unforgettable intro of which you can see here) once again turned the suburban thriller genre on its (severed) ear, the idea of suburban disdain and despair bubbling under an all-too-idyllic surface had been done to death, and beyond. Most film goers will unrelentingly cite 1999's (has it been that long?) American Beauty, which kicked off a trend of dark-side-of-suburbia dramedies every bit as persistent as the slacker-hitmen permanently etched into public consciousness by Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and the imitators that followed. Thumbsucker, The Chumscrubber, Little Children, the list goes on and on, with a few choice flicks bucking the trend and updating the already ambitious but admittedly dated template of Beauty.
So where does Dean O'Flaherty’s Beautiful fall on that scale of mostly tired indies? Unfortunately, the O'Flaherty-penned and directed film is a cluttered canvas...
So where does Dean O'Flaherty’s Beautiful fall on that scale of mostly tired indies? Unfortunately, the O'Flaherty-penned and directed film is a cluttered canvas...
- 7/6/2010
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- JustPressPlay.net
Year: 2009
Directors: Dean O'Flaherty
Writers: Dean O'Flaherty
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: cyberhal
Rating: 8 out of 10
[Newport Beach Film Festival coverage]
Many of the things I fear and loath about suburban living were nailed beautifully by first time director, and Australian, Dean O’Flaherty. Beautiful, portrays the thin veneer of affluence covering a writhing mass of pain and suffering. It’s a dark coming of age film in which an obsessive and innocent young boy is sucked up into a twisted world. It’s a journey into urban myth and reality where the guardians perpetuate the distortion. A movie that takes the time to explore the emotional space between people, and between the surface beauty an image and its deeper meaning. I liked the film so much, I even forgave the fact that the Newport Beach festival people made we-the-audience sit through 6 (yes 6) speeches and had the audacity to give me a magnetic toy koala bear.
Directors: Dean O'Flaherty
Writers: Dean O'Flaherty
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: cyberhal
Rating: 8 out of 10
[Newport Beach Film Festival coverage]
Many of the things I fear and loath about suburban living were nailed beautifully by first time director, and Australian, Dean O’Flaherty. Beautiful, portrays the thin veneer of affluence covering a writhing mass of pain and suffering. It’s a dark coming of age film in which an obsessive and innocent young boy is sucked up into a twisted world. It’s a journey into urban myth and reality where the guardians perpetuate the distortion. A movie that takes the time to explore the emotional space between people, and between the surface beauty an image and its deeper meaning. I liked the film so much, I even forgave the fact that the Newport Beach festival people made we-the-audience sit through 6 (yes 6) speeches and had the audacity to give me a magnetic toy koala bear.
- 4/28/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Cinema Releases for the Week 03/05/09
Beautiful - New Aussie feature from debut writer/director Dean O'Flaherty. I thought it was a pretty mess.
Dean Spanley - Toa Fraser's period comedy starring Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam, Pete O'Toole and Bryan Brown. It is a co-production between the UK and Fraser's native New Zealand.
Jcvd - Jean Claude Van Damme stars in this self-mocking movie. Screens exclusively at Acmi here in Melbourne. For other states I can't tell ya, unfortunately.
Let the Right One In - If this movie were being released wide I'd make a joke and hoping fans of Twilight go see it and then realise what they've been wasting their time on. Alas, it's only screening at one cinema in Victoria and I'm sure not many more around the rest of the nation. I didn't think it was the greatest thing since sliced bread when I saw it at Miff last year,...
Beautiful - New Aussie feature from debut writer/director Dean O'Flaherty. I thought it was a pretty mess.
Dean Spanley - Toa Fraser's period comedy starring Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam, Pete O'Toole and Bryan Brown. It is a co-production between the UK and Fraser's native New Zealand.
Jcvd - Jean Claude Van Damme stars in this self-mocking movie. Screens exclusively at Acmi here in Melbourne. For other states I can't tell ya, unfortunately.
Let the Right One In - If this movie were being released wide I'd make a joke and hoping fans of Twilight go see it and then realise what they've been wasting their time on. Alas, it's only screening at one cinema in Victoria and I'm sure not many more around the rest of the nation. I didn't think it was the greatest thing since sliced bread when I saw it at Miff last year,...
- 3/5/2009
- by Kamikaze Camel
- Stale Popcorn
Sometimes I watch a movie and can immediately tell what the pitch would have been. Disturbia was "Rear Window, but with teenagers!" or Australia was "Gone with the Wind, but with Aussie accents!" Such it was with Dean O'Flaherty's debut film as writer and director, Beautiful. I can picture the meeting now. "So guy, it's Blue Velvet, but with teenagers... and Aussie accents!" Which just makes the movie even more of a disappointment.
There is a good movie tucked away inside Beautiful and it occasionally rears it's head from time to time to perk the viewer's interest whenever it begins to slide due to unnecessary subplots and ridiculous flights of fancy. It is just that it never sticks around long enough to build towards a successful film. In fact, watching the film is a very bizarre experience, indeed. A bizarro-world mish-mash of ideas and images. Not once does O'Flaherty...
There is a good movie tucked away inside Beautiful and it occasionally rears it's head from time to time to perk the viewer's interest whenever it begins to slide due to unnecessary subplots and ridiculous flights of fancy. It is just that it never sticks around long enough to build towards a successful film. In fact, watching the film is a very bizarre experience, indeed. A bizarro-world mish-mash of ideas and images. Not once does O'Flaherty...
- 3/4/2009
- by Kamikaze Camel
- Stale Popcorn
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