Author Gabrielle O'Brien

Based upon L.P. Hartley’s 1953 novel, The Go-Between (Joseph Losey, 1971) is an elegant film in its pristine formal composition and beguiling Edwardian setting. Beneath this polished surface, however, there is ...

Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence. Sybylla, don’t throw away reality for some impossible dream. - Aunt Gussie (Patricia Kennedy) When looking back at the filmography of Australia’s nation...

There are moments in Vacant Possession (1994) when the past becomes a material presence. Writer/director Margot Nash’s ambitious ‘state of the nation’ film probes Australia’s shifting cultural landscape, and la...