This year’s Sydney film festival lineup includes, clockwise from top left, The Outrun, Explanation for Everything, Kinds of Kindness and Sasquatch Sunset.This year’s Sydney film festival lineup includes, clockwise from top left, The Outrun, Explanation for Everything, Kinds of Kindness and Sasquatch Sunset.his year’s Sydney film festival program has just been announced and, as usual, it is bulging with treats from around the world.
Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning“an incredibly effective portrait of a reeling mind” that’s “titanic and quiet, and utterly convincing even in the very difficult art of acting drunk”. The four-time Oscar nominee plays Rona, a 29-year-old who returns home to the Orkney islands while battling the throes of addiction.
Peter Weir’s first major feature film was released in 1974, several years before Mad Max, but has a similar dystopian feel. Weir’s stunning body of work can of course be revisited, including his first feature The Cars That Ate Paris – one of the pioneering productions in the genre of bat-shit-crazy Aussie car movies. It’s set in a small town that economically relies on a steady supply of wrecked vehicles, created by locals who force visitors off the road.