Fiction

LANTANA

Ray Lawrence
AUS, DEU 2001
121 min
V'02

Lantana: a noxious and troublesome weed with dense and spiky undergrowth, sometimes cultivated for its colorful, aromatic flowers. Like the plant, the film Lantana is a thicket: lovely and sweet-smelling on its surface, dense and thorny beneath: a murder mystery that isnt really a murder mystery about people whose lives are not always what they appear to be. Lantanas delicately layered storyline uncovers, or at least reminds us of, three essential truths about human existence: (1) No one is exactly what he or she seems. (2) Our actions are like ripples on water, generating effects that reach far beyond the actions themselves. (3) We spend our lives fearing the worst when, more often than not, the worst happens only in our fevered imaginations. (Michael Rankins)

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Credits
  • Anthony LaPaglia - Leon Zat
  • Geoffrey Rush - John Knox
  • Barbara Hershey - Dr. Valerie Somers
  • Kerry Armstrong - Sonja Zat
  • Rachael Blake - Jane OMay
  • Vince Colosimo - Nik Daniels
  • Russell Dykstra - Michael
  • Daniella Farinacci - Paula Daniels
  • Peter Phelps - Patrick Phelan
  • Leah Purcell - Claudia
  • Glenn Robbins - Pete OMay
  • Nicholas Cooper - Sam Zat
  • Marc Dwyer - Dylan Zat
  • Andrew Bovell nach seinem Theaterstück «Speaking in Tongues»
  • Mandy Walker
  • Andrew Plain
  • Karl Sodersten
  • Paul Kelly
  • Kim Buddee
  • Margot Wilson
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