Parklands (1996) User Reviews

Brilliant Direction...

[tony_rad · 23 January 2001]

The film Parklands, starring now famous Cate Blanchett, is delightful and inspiring. The depth and honesty it contains is rare in many commercial films to date. Under Millard's direction and script, this film translates into an epic journey of one woman, and her courage to fight against all odds.

Rating: 9/10

what a pile of pants

[sleeping_okay · 2/10 · 1 June 2000]

this should really be called "pants lands", really, i mean, what going on? But seriously, i only saw a bit of it, and it actually looked quite good but it doesnt get a good mark all the same

However, the direction was good and the story was quite interesting, the acting was also good, all in all a top quality film.

Ethereal mystery of everyday. Was that really my dad?

[FilmartDD · 8/10 · 28 February 2005]

A small but charming essay on small-town family relationships, where we know the people but never know them. In this case, the circumscribed life of the inner suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, just across the Parklands of the title. Apparently calm and bucolic, the parklands seethe with strange happenings, and this policeman dad knew something, something dangerous or merely odd? His daughter just has to find out, what is this strange compulsion? A cross between KINGS ROW and Virginia Woolf, Cate Blanchett displaying that fey fragility, the faded thirties elegance of a going-nowhere colonial capital, an unresolved air of mystery -- a satisfying fifty-minuter with a young star who soon made it big.