Blessed (I) (2009)

Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.

Director:

Ana Kokkinos

Writers:

Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius,

Stars:

Frances O'Connor, Miranda Otto, Deborra-Lee Furness

3 wins & 7 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Frances O'Connor	...	Rhonda
Miranda Otto	...	Bianca
Deborra-Lee Furness	...	Tanya
Victoria Haralabidou	...	Gina
Monica Maughan	...	Laurel Parker
Wayne Blair	...	James Parker
William McInnes	...	Peter
Tasma Walton	...	Gail
Sophie Lowe	...	Katrina
Anastasia Baboussouras	...	Trisha
Harrison Gilbertson	...	Daniel
Eamon Farren	...	Roo
Eva Lazzaro	...	Stacey
Reef Ireland	...	Orton
Melanie Beddie	...	Young Laurel

Storyline

Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.

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Plot Keywords:

one word title | australia

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 September 2009 (Australia)

Also Known As:

Evlogimenes psyhes

Filming Locations:

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Company Credits

Production Co:

Blessed Film Productions, Film Victoria, Head Gear Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is the second time Monica Maughan has played Wayne Blair's (adoptive) mother.

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Connections

Referenced in At the Movies: Episode #7.19 (2010)

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Soundtracks

"Elsie"
Written by Mark McEntee and Christina Amphlett
Performed by the Divinyls

User Reviews

From Melbourne-a self-proclaimed cultural capital of Australia, a gem not to miss

As many other Australian movies, this work is hard to comprehend at a firs glance by the non-Australians, those used, especially, to enjoying the public places in accordance with their local rules heralded – NOT being punished for NOT listening a music without headphones/cell-phone deliberating last shag details in a computer zone if any, at a local public library, for instance.

Such a very specific flexible Australian approach in situ to human freedoms and liberties demanded from the rest of the world to follow uncompromisingly, has been seen sure-transparently in works by Ana Kokkinos, a movie-maker having already a world shocked with her brilliant "Head On" and definitely-Australian "The Book of Revelations", of which contexts are simple dominance of what-want-to-do attitude as a resistance against commoner's factual powerlessness and arbitrariness factually sustaining a grey boring grass-root subsistence of semi-egalitarians/semi-inmates of Australian ethnic minorities she belongs to, particularly.

This new movie is of inter-family relations and how strangers are interacting unknowingly in their common inability to change anything in lives run down in modern dead-boring Melbourne-a self-proclaimed vibrant cultural capital of Australia.

A gem not to miss.