AUSTRALIA | 2023 | COLOR | DCP | 91’ | ENGLISH

Cash-strapped, two young American women visiting Australia, end up working at the ‘Royal Hotel’, a pub in the middle of nowhere whose customers are the mine workers of the area. Soon they will realize that they constitute the pub’s sole attraction. Isolated in a place where no one is to be trusted, they have to withstand for at least a week the male dragnet closing threateningly in. Eclectic relative of Ted Kotcheff’s masterful ‘Wake in Fright’, the film balances horror and psychological elements, eliciting instinctive responses. Kitty Green’s does a splendid job orchestrating genre mechanisms, carefully then detonating a feminist bomb in the face of contemporary cinema. Th.K.

DIRECTOR: Kitty Green
SCREENWRITERS: Kitty Green, Oscar Redding
DoP: Michael Latham
MUSIC: Jed Palmer
EDITOR: Kasra Rassoulzadegan
PRINCIPAL CAST: Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Toby Wallace, Hugo Weaving

KITTY GREEN
Australian filmmaker. She studied Film and TV at the Victorian College of Fine Arts. During her studies she directed a short which premiered at Brisbane FF. Famous for her topical documentaries. This is her second feature film.

FILMOGRAPHY
2023 The Royal Hotel
2019 The Assistant