An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows.
Acting
Hugo Weaving's seedy moral authority anchors the chaos.
Direction
Paul Ireland makes Melbourne's west look like a character.
Writing
Modern slang wrestling with iambic pentameter—messy but alive.
Director
Paul Ireland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in actual Melbourne public housing estates slated for demolition, with residents as extras. The location itself was demolished weeks after filming wrapped.
Ireland deliberately cast against Shakespeare's original: his Isabella figure (Karima) is Muslim, his Angelo is a white supremacist cop, inverting who holds moral authority in contemporary Australia.
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