Beautiful Kate
The past is always present.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 21, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Momentum
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bryan Brown, Maeve Dermody, Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Griffiths & Sophie Lowe | |
Directed by | Rachel Ward | |
Screenwriting by | Rachel Ward | |
Composition by | Murray Paterson & Tex Perkins | |
Director of Photography: | Andy Commis |
Entertainment Reviews:
It's absorbingly intriguing, emotionally involving and it will get under your skin. It may even still be under my skin. I'll just check...yes, still there.
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The Spectator
Rating: 4/5 --
This is an extraordinary film not only for its subject matter, and its approach, but for the extraordinary qualities it demonstrates in every field. The cast are superb, the cinematography magical, the absence of morality is refreshing.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Rating: 4/5 --
Helps redress a long-standing problem with Australian cinema by illustrating how fully developed, emotionally driven, three-act stories result in films that immerse you in their visions.
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The Age (Australia)
Rating: 4/5 --
Beautifully acted and shot, this isn't comforting cinema but is bold and haunting, marking Ward out as a director of note.
Little White Lies
Rating: 2.5/5 --
A stylish and intriguing debut from Rachel Ward. However, despite its good looks, this film ulimately has little to say for itself.
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Film4
Rating: 2/5 --
Although it presents itself as a bastion of haunting thoughtfulness and a target of controversy, Beautiful Kate offers nothing more than familiar themes seen in plenty of Australian films before it.
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Matt's Movie Reviews
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Ward's tough-minded and uniquely Australian version of Southern Gothic does reward your perseverance by at last making you care.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Product Description:
Celebrated British-born actress Rachel Ward (THE THORN BIRDS, AGAINST ALL ODDS) makes her feature directorial debut with this unique and occasionally provocative drama, featuring longtime husband Bryan Brown and produced in Brown's native Australia. A loose adaptation of the 1982 novel by Newton Thornburg (CUTTER'S WAY), it transposes the events of that roman from Chicago to an Australian farm. Ben Mendelsohn stars as Ned Kendall, a fortyish author who takes his young, slightly uncouth girlfriend, Toni (Maeve Dermody) along to visit his dying father, Bruce (Brown) a failed politician and farmer now cared for by daughter Sally (Rachel Griffiths) on the clan's Aussie property. The relationship between Ned and Bruce remains supremely dysfunctional, as father constantly berates and pushes his son; the focal points of their conflicts spring from the teenage death of Ned's twin sister Kate (Sophie Lowe) and the suicide of his older brother Cliff (Josh McFarlane). After Toni and Sally each storm out of the home in a nasty huff, director Ward intercuts two parallel narratives: the circumstances (including Kate's insatiable sexual curiosity during adolescence) that once led to the family's two tragic losses, and, in a contemporary framework, the delicate steps that Bruce and Ned begin to take toward reconciliation, in the period immediately preceding Bruce's death.
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- UPC: 741952687290
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