Being Venice
DCP / HD - 2012 - Australia - 89 min - Color - Drama
Being Venice
Original title: Being Venice
A film by Miro Bilbrough
Venice (40) is having trouble with the men in her life: she breaks up with her lover and starts a brief & idyllic affair with her best friend. To her chagrin, her ex-hippy dad (Arthur), camped on her sofa for a week, ignores it all, like a stranger in her life. The pain of childhood rejection resurfaces for Venice. Why did he send her away when she was just seven years old? It's one of the great mysteries; what it's like inside another's head. Until she asks the right person the right question, she is condemned to ask it of all who cross her path. On the morning of Arthur’s departure Venice can’t hold back any longer. Her unwelcome frankness shatters Arthur; and his story dismantles them both.
Original language: English
Produced by: DRAGONET FILMS PTY LTD
Festivals:
Sydney International Film Festival 2012
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, World Premiere, Germany 2012
Chennai International Film Festival (CIFF) 2012
Pune International Film Festival 2012
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Miro Bilbrough
Before becoming a filmmaker, Miro Bilbrough worked as an art curator, an art critic, a film journalist, a cook, a bar tender and briefly, in a fish factory. She also published her poetry extensively in New Zealand, her country of birth. Her first short film URN (1996), is an adaptation of one of her poems. It was made after she settled in Sydney, where it gained theatrical release. As writer-director her other credits are Floodhouse (2004), a short feature film, and Bartleby (2000), an adaptation of Herman Melville's classic tale (Silver Medal for Fiction, Bilbao International Film Festival, Spain, 2001).
