Word: harbour
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Although this is not a title you’d normally associate with humor, Lone Scherfig’s Swedish film is a dryly sweet comedy. Harbour and Wilbur have inherited their father’s used book store and Harbour has inherited the task of taking care of his suicidally depressed younger brother. One day, Alice and her young daughter Mary walk into the book shop and sparks fly. Soon, a romantic quadrangle develops and this man who has never liked life learns to love...
...Xiao Xian's startling Lamda prints. For Liu's Home series, the Beijing-born, Sydney-based artist has Photoshopped Chinese family portraits before painted backcloths of places like the Summer Palace and Tiananmen Tower, together with larger backdrops of tourist sites such as Buckingham Palace and Sydney Harbour. With these digital dioramas of hope and home, Liu suggests photography's infinite possibilities, not its death. Here Hockney's worst nightmare is Adelaide's delight...
...consenting prostitute. At the center of the current storm is a 20-year-old woman who has told police that in the early hours of Feb. 22, a number of players sexually assaulted her by the pool at a resort in the northern New South Wales town of Coffs Harbour. The woman, who was taken from the resort to hospital in an ambulance, alleges the assault involved vaginal, oral and anal penetration. At press time, no charges had been laid and several unidentified players had protested their innocence. Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward and expect to interview...
Both Rabbit and Harbour look at events from the grassroots up: at how a cynical distrust of politicians and big business can be harnessed into people power instead of hatred. And both - written and directed by women - suggest that the real battles were not fought in the male domains of football fields or the waterfront but in the home. Certainly Harbour is more interested in how an industrial dispute can divide a family than in its effect on a country. Having fled his wife Vi (Melissa Jaffer) six years before, Sandy returns to Millers Point to find a changed order...
...comparison, Harbour often seems stilted. While Stephen Curtis's set evokes Sydney's watery darkness, Thomson's writing only skims the dockyard drama. Humor is to be found in the substory of scab worker Craig (Mitchell Butel), but for all its talk about a defining moment in history, Harbour lacks focus - unlike Rabbit, which never takes its eye off the ball. 'It's a thread that goes through your life," supporter Mark Courtney says of the Rabbitoh tradition. Flaunting the red of the Catholic church and the green of the club founders' Irish homeland, it's a play that dares...