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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Friends and Strangers
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'Ray (Fergus Wilson), a meandering directionless videographer and Alice (Emma Diaz), a similarly apathetic 20-something embark on a misguided and humiliating camping trip. Once back in Sydney, Ray drifts between odd jobs, unmotivated by his suffocatingly breezy, no-stakes existence. A comment on privilege and colonial malaise – accentuated by Dimitri Zaunders's lush cinematography, bursting with gorgeous pastel tones reminiscent of Australia's Impressionist era – Vaughan's confident feature debut excels in mining humour from the awkward non-starts that define contemporary existence. Evocative of the films of Éric Rohmer, Hong Sangsoo and Luis Buñuel – but with a decidedly Australian twist.'

Source: Sydney Film Festival.

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Shoestring Budgets and Disaffected Youth : Why Australian Film Is Ripe for a Mumblecore Revival Michael Sun , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 12 November 2021;

'From Friends and Strangers to Hot Mess, there’s a new wave of self-funded films that celebrate the mundane and tap into ‘a national malaise’'

Shoestring Budgets and Disaffected Youth : Why Australian Film Is Ripe for a Mumblecore Revival Michael Sun , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 12 November 2021;

'From Friends and Strangers to Hot Mess, there’s a new wave of self-funded films that celebrate the mundane and tap into ‘a national malaise’'

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