Italian

The story of 1971’s A Girl in Australia

… while The Life Apart’s warts and blemishes mainly exist within its backwards moral fable, the actors and characters’ small crescendos within the film are enough to give it a

… a painterly quality that’s very easy on the eye.

… the emotional impact of the film as a whole doesn’t resonate as deeply as it should … It’s almost, but not quite, brilliant.

… an engrossing and fully realised film …

… well worth seeing …

A taut Roman police thriller … a brutal film

... predominantly entertaining, part whimsical and part eerie, and the murky brown/green cinematography – like a Caravaggio or a Velasquez come to life – is a treat.

… derivative of far better gangster films, and so generic that it’s almost a deadpan parody. It’s watchable enough but not especially engaging.

… insightful, revealing, and even at times, intuitively profound.