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Lantana

Country: Australia, Language: English, 121 mins

  • Director: Ray Lawrence
  • Writer: Andrew Bovell
  • Producer: Mikael Borglund; Jan Chapman

CGiii Comment

At first, it seemed that this had been written by a very naive woman - it's not.

Considering his other work, The Book of Revelation, Bovell obviously knows NOTHING about women. Zzzz.

The performances are all top notch - Australian critics consumed it and lavished praise upon it without mercy.

Make your own mind up - and, be prepared to wait...because it is slow.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Trust. A dead body in bracken. A cop cheats on his unhappy wife who, in secret, sees a psychiatrist whose own marriage is corroded by grief: she thinks her husband is having an affair with a gay patient of hers. The cop's lover, Jane, is recently separated, and her neighbors - a couple with children - include a muscular unemployed man. Late one night, the doctor skids off a back road, finds a call box, and tries in vain to reach her husband. She sees headlights and flags down the driver. Later that night, Jane sees her neighbor park his truck and throw something into the lantana in a vacant lot. It's a woman's shoe. Unraveling the mystery lays bare five couples.

Cast & Characters

Anthony LaPaglia as Detective Leon Zat;
Rachael Blake as Jane 'Janie' O'May;
Kerry Armstrong as Sonja Zat;
Manu Bennett as Steve Valdez;
Melissa Martinez as Lisa;
Owen McKenna as Old man in pajamas;
Nicholas Cooper as Sam Zat;
Marc Dwyer as Dylan Zat;
Puven Pather as Drug dealer;
Lionel Tozer as Police officer;
Glenn Suter as Police officer;
Leah Purcell as Detective Claudia Wiss;
Barbara Hershey as Dr. Valerie Somers;
Natasha Guthrie as Young girl;
James Cullington as Man at book launch