Spellbound Cannes delights to a love letter from the Australian Heartland
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”THIS is a special Australian film,” Ivan Sen said as he stood on the Cannes stage. ”It shows aspects of Australia that haven’t been seen in the cinema before.”
Sen’s film Toomelah, showing in the festival’s section for innovative auteurs Un Certain Regard, is named for the Aboriginal community near the NSW-Queensland border where his mother grew up. Sen used to go there a lot as a child. It’s like the Wild West, he says, laughing, but he still feels more comfortable in Toomelah than anywhere else.
It is almost 10 years since Sen’s first feature about two indigenous teenagers heading for the city, Beneath Clouds, won multiple awards at the Berlin Film Festival.
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