Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns home to the country town she grew up in and has a fling with an old flame, Alan. She also begins sleeping with Paddy.
Acting
Judy Morris carries the whole film on her weary shoulders.
Production
Canberra-to-Sydney geography as emotional architecture.
Director
Chris McGill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Judy Morris co-wrote the screenplay, drawing from her own experiences as a thirty-something Australian woman in the late 70s.
This was part of a brief wave of Australian 'women's pictures' between the ocker comedies and the international art-house boom—most vanished, but this one predicted Frances and Bridget Jones by decades.
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