![]() You can use a text widget to display text, links, images, HTML, or a combination of these. The Text Widget allows you to add text or HTML to your sidebar. Australian films have been on a bit of a roll recently, but this on has, for me, been left behind. It has no tension, what the moments of humour the film has, don’t land sadly. I wanted to like The Faceless Man, but sadly thought it a bit of a dull film. I do think he has potential to do better work in the future. I do think too, that Di Martino directs the film better than he has written it (the post credit scene was a great little touch though). Some are good, others less so, but to be fair, none are bad. The performances, Sophie Thurling’s aside, are a mixed bag. But again, there is no real tension in the film here either. The events at the end of the film could have made a potentially interesting film of its own, but are reduced to a brief aspect of the film as a whole. The violence just happens, in part, because it has to. While this is well done, there’s no tension there. When the stories converge, Emily, who I presume is meant to be the lead character, disappears from the story for awhile as the brutal, bloody violence begins. Yes, drugs are involved (which is why the gangster aspect is there) but even with that, there’s no fallout or reaction to the effects at all. Soon the ‘dead’ character turns up alive and well. For example at one point, one character appears to kill another. Emily’s friends and the townsfolk are a bit annoying and moments in the film seem to contradict others. It/He looks creepy, but doesn’t add anything to the film. The Faceless Man of the title, doesn’t really have a part to play in the story. Even the gangster, coming after them, isn’t that bad a character either.īut the problems with the story are hard to overcome. Di Martino also creates some great characters too, such as Barry The C*nt, who sorts out problems in the area where Emily and her friends go. The opening of the film, as Emily (well played by Sophie Thurling) confronts her father at the hospital while dealing with her cancer is a very powerful scene, for me the best scene in the film. To be fair, there is some good things in the writing. I suspect as he gets more experienced writing feature films, he will get better at developing his ideas, without the need to pack it with several different ones. The film is the debut feature from James Di Martino, who has made several short films before and one can’t escape the feeling that he felt one story on its own was sufficient and needed the others. There are potentially three stories here, one can argue there are four, yet while each one on its own would make, possibly, a film by itself, to try and combine them all into one means parts of it feel rushed or poorly written. There are times a film over complicates itself. A young woman who three years earlier beat cancer heads off for a weekend in the country with friends, but fears that the cancer might be back…
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