83 mins |
Rated
TBC
Playing as part of the NEW DIRECTIONS: FILM SERIES from 13-15 April 2023, brought to you by the Goethe Institut.
Entry to the series is free and tickets can be picked up on the day for screenings on that day only. First come, first served. Online bookings are available (a non-refundable booking fee of $1.50 per ticket applies, due to the ticketing system the ticket appears with a cost of $0.01 and a booking fee of $1.50) via the Academy Cinemas website, but tickets must be picked up at least 30 mins prior to the screening, otherwise tickets will be released again.
Standing in relief from other films of its generation, Melanie Waelde’s NAKED ANIMALS pulsates with daring anarchic intensity and defiant vitality, bearing a directness and authenticity that is frequently attempted but rarely ever achieved. Bolstered by the heady, visceral camerawork of DP Fion Mutert, and charged with torrid performances from a talented young cast, it is a work of rare intimacy and personal candor, initiating us into the tenuous yet no-holds-barred, self-made world of five teenagers, each with their own past traumas. In choosing to live together, entirely without adult supervision, they form—as the film’s title intimates—a sort of insular tribe devised of its own rituals and unspoken language. As the film goes on, their tight clan begins to feel as fragile as it is sustaining, a quixotic communion that is nevertheless a necessary respite from the real world.
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Playing as part of the NEW DIRECTIONS: FILM SERIES from 13-15 April 2023, brought to you by the Goethe Institut.
Entry to the series is free and tickets can be picked up on the day for screenings on that day only. First come, first served. Online bookings are available (a non-refundable booking fee of $1.50 per ticket applies, due to the ticketing system the ticket appears with a cost of $0.01 and a booking fee of $1.50) via the Academy Cinemas website, but tickets must be picked up at least 30 mins prior to the screening, otherwise tickets will be released again.
Standing in relief from other films of its generation, Melanie Waelde’s NAKED ANIMALS pulsates with daring anarchic intensity and defiant vitality, bearing a directness and authenticity that is frequently attempted but rarely ever achieved. Bolstered by the heady, visceral camerawork of DP Fion Mutert, and charged with torrid performances from a talented young cast, it is a work of rare intimacy and personal candor, initiating us into the tenuous yet no-holds-barred, self-made world of five teenagers, each with their own past traumas. In choosing to live together, entirely without adult supervision, they form—as the film’s title intimates—a sort of insular tribe devised of its own rituals and unspoken language. As the film goes on, their tight clan begins to feel as fragile as it is sustaining, a quixotic communion that is nevertheless a necessary respite from the real world.