Hearts and Bones

Name: Hearts and Bones
Genre: Drama
Released: November 20, 2020
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Alan Dukes, Andrew Luri, Bolude Watson, Brandon Burke, Fran Kelly

2020

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Gravitas Ventures | Release Date: November 20, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Alan Dukes, Andrew Luri, Bolude Watson, Brandon Burke, Fran Kelly, Hayley McElhinney, Hugo Weaving, Melanie De Ferranti, Toni Scanlan, Victoria Haralabidou

Summary: War photographer Daniel Fisher (Hugo Weaving) has returned home to the news of his wife’s pregnancy. Determined not to let fatherhood alter his way of life, he begins preparations for an upcoming exhibition and his next overseas assignment. However, as the birth of his child draws near he struggles to keep his rising anxiety hidden.War photographer Daniel Fisher (Hugo Weaving) has returned home to the news of his wife’s pregnancy. Determined not to let fatherhood alter his way of life, he begins preparations for an upcoming exhibition and his next overseas assignment. However, as the birth of his child draws near he struggles to keep his rising anxiety hidden. Meanwhile, South Sudanese refugee Sebastian Aman (Andrew Luri) has created a safe life in Australia with his wife and child. His peaceful life is disturbed when Daniel’s exhibition threatens to display photographs of a massacre that occurred in Sebastian’s home village 15 years earlier. When Sebastian approaches Daniel with an appeal to not display any images of the massacre, an unlikely friendship develops between the two men that challenges Daniel’s creative control and unearths disturbing details surrounding Sebastian’s past.… Expand

Director: Ben Lawrence

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 111 min

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Eddie Cockrell

Nov 17, 2020

The intuitive selection of the four leads, and their complex, perceptive playing of the material, is a credit to Lawrence’s deft direction of both veteran and non-professional talent. Read full review

David Michael Brown

Nov 17, 2020

While the two leads are given every opportunity to impress, it’s the ensemble behind them who give proceedings heart and soul. Read full review

Sarah Ward

Nov 17, 2020

An intimate film tackling an expansive subject — the treatment of refugees around the globe, and the way the world processes the traumas that lead to such urgent, widespread immigration — this is a poignant and morally complex drama. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Nov 17, 2020

While the film has some heartfelt exchanges of kinship and empathy, however, it is also punctuated by moments of abject despair. This is crucial to a core message that moves beyond the healing power of art towards the entitlement those who make it possess and those who serve as their subjects don’t. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Hearts and Bones isn’t particularly graceful in the way it unfolds, and it doesn’t hide one man’s secret well enough or give the other’s the weight it seems to represent. But some very fine acting, a few poignant scenes and a general earnestness carry it off. Read full review

The Guardian Luke Buckmaster

Nov 17, 2020

It is a human-oriented drama that builds a thoughtful and contemplative space, empathising with characters grappling with difficult circumstances outside the common experience. It is also the kind of drama you sometimes want to grab and shake to life. Read full review

Harry Windsor

Nov 17, 2020

Flirts with becoming a savage indictment of affluent do-gooderism, but finally swerves to land on a vision of fraternity that’s altogether more optimistic. Read full review

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