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[KITTY-GREEN]

Green's camera sits where her protagonists sit: on the edge of the room, seeing everything, authorised to do nothing about it.

Kitty Green puts two backpackers behind an outback bar and lets the threat accumulate like bar tabs nobody plans to settle.

The score sits so far back in the mix you forget it is there, which is exactly how the threat in the film works.

The year's strongest Australian screen work gave women permission to be angry, messy, cruel, and specific, and the camera did not flinch.

Kent, Murphy, Green, and Purcell made the films the industry did not ask for, and the films were better for not being asked.

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