It’s an unsurprisingly “literary” kind of film, with the emphasis on the text and the actors and all directorial flourishes kept to a bare minimum. But while she deserves credit for skirting histrionics and tragedy, by the end it’s debatable whether the results are elegantly spare or pallidly slender. This thankfully doesn’t quite materialize, Gilbert instead developing the Joseph/Suzanne relationship in a mature, nuanced manner.
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The stage is set for a familiar story of long-dormant lust and septuagenarian folly with what we fear will be dire, melodramatic consequences – Amour plus Venus meets Death In Venice, even. Joseph is only shaken from his genteel torpor when he becomes quietly infatuated with twentysomething Suzanne (Dormer), who’s in town for a few days with her boyfriend Mark ( Paul Nicholls). He’s languid and somewhat bored she’s much feistier and more energetic, despite showing early symptoms of mental cloudiness. Indeed, this kind of restrained, civilized fare is the kind of thing often to be found on BBC’s staid Radio 4, to which seventyish Joseph (Fox) and his Irish wife Brenda (Fricker) remain devoted despite having decamped to foreign climes.
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But it seldom feels particularly “cinematic,” and there’s the sense that Gilbert’s text could just as easily have been adapted for TV or radio. UP NEXT: Battling Melbourne Victory take on Western United on Monday evening to round out the long weekend in Victoria.Set and shot in the beautiful and ancient Roman city of Nimes, not far from France’s Mediterranean coast, A Long Way From Home makes pleasant use of some unfamiliar locations. UNDER PRESSURE: Macarthur's 4-1 loss to Central Coast means the Bulls now haven't won away from Campbelltown Stadium since Christmas Eve. He scored a flick-header in the 88th minute to seal a 2-1 win for City. Henry Hore coughed up the ball and O'Neill pounced, charging forward and embarking on a weaving run before fizzing a wonderful strike past Roar goalkeeper Jordan Holmes. McEneff sent the crowd of 7,890 wild when his shot from the edge of the box deflected off Wanderers defender Thomas Beadling and wrong-footed goalkeeper Lawrence Thomas.īEAT THAT 2: Aiden O'Neill's goal to put Melbourne City ahead against Brisbane was a work of art. Both Elsey and Covic's fouls happened on 57 seconds, but the referee took more time to dish out Elsey's red.īEAT THAT: Perth midfielder Aaron McEneff popped up five minutes into added time with the winner against Western Sydney. The fastest belongs to then-Victory goalkeeper Ante Covic, who was sent off after just 62 seconds in a 2-2 draw with Brisbane in 2011. As a side note, Glory defender Jordan Elsey's red card in the 93rd second was the second fastest in ALM history.
With plenty more games to come, that record is set to be smashed in the coming weeks. That's how many red cards there have been this season, matching the previous record set in 2010/11. The Adelaide United skipper scored a goal and assisted in two others in the Reds' dramatic 4-2 win over Newcastle that extended their unbeaten run to nine games. MAN OF THE WEEK: Craig Goodwin just can't stop influencing games. Zawada's partner was due to give birth on Saturday and the striker had insisted he was going to stay in Wellington if she went into labour, but he travelled to Auckland and scored. THEY SAID IT: "I thank his wife Patrycja for holding on for another day." - Wellington coach Ufuk Talay after striker Oskar Zawada scored his ninth goal in 10 games to seal a 1-0 win over Sydney FC.
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