Country: Australia
Year: 2022
Duration: 117'
A friendship forms between two strangers. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour, this is a dream come true. His new friend Mark becomes his savior and ally. However, neither is who they appear to be, each carry secrets that threaten to ruin them - and in the background, one of the nation’s largest police operations is closing in.
Biography
film director
Thomas M. Wright
(Melbourne, Australia, 1983) is a director, writer, actor and producer. He is the director of the award-winning feature Acute Misfortune (2018), about the Australian artist Adam Cullen. The film, Wright’s debut, was the winner of The Age Critics’ Prize at Melbourne International Film Festival, was named the best Australian film of 2019 and one of the ten best Australian films of the decade by «The Guardian». The Stranger, Wright’s second feature, premiered at Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard section. As an actor, Wright came to international attention in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake (2013, presented at the TFF 31), in Baltasar Kormákur’s Everest (2015), and Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country (2017). In 2006 he founded the theatre company Black Lung, then named one of the most influential theatre companies of the decade by «The Australian», receiving numerous awards and widespread critical acclaim.
FILMOGRAFIA
Acute Misfortune (2018), The Stranger (2022)
Declaration
film director
“When Joel approached me to adapt this case into a film, I wasn’t sure I could write it. As a father, it was overwhelming. Though the closer I came to it, the more it took hold of me – and revealed itself as about more than violence or grief. I saw a time-based image in my mind: A dark room, through which we draw toward a crack of light in a far wall. Darkness, defined by that broken, piercing line of light. Though violence is the reason for this film, the film is about what is left in its wake, not violence itself. It is a film about dualities – at its centre is a relationship between two liars – one pathological and the other professional. It is a tightening knot of tension, lies and false realities - headed toward inevitable resolution or collapse.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Thomas M. Wright. STORY: The Sting: The Undercover Operation that Caught Daniel Morcombe’s Killer di Kate Kyriacou. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sam Chiplin. FILM EDITING: Simon Njoo. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Leah Popple. MUSIC: Oliver Coates. SOUND: Andy Wright. CAST: Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Cormac Wright, Steve Mouzakis, Matthew Sunderland, Fletcher Humphrys, Ewen Leslie Jada Alberts. PRODUCERS: Rachel Gardner, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Joel Edgerton, Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Kim Hodgert. PRODUCTION: See-Saw Films, Anonymous Content, Blue-Tongue Film Productions.
CONTACT:
Bim Distribuzione - Federica Scarnati fscarnati@bimfilm.com
