LANTANA (2001)

Director: Ray Lawrence

Writer: Andrew Bovell

Anthony LaPaglia as Leon
Geoffrey Rush as John
Barbara Hershey as Dr.Valerie
Also Kerry Armstring, Rachel Blake, Russell Dykstra, Vince Colisimo

Fantastic film which swept the annual AFI awards and a host of overseas accolades. Director Lawrence follows up from his equally brilliant first film, Bliss, made over 15 years earlier. The story is a complex web of emotional tensions stretched over a basic murder-mystery plot device. Beautifully photographed, acted and directed, this is a masterpiece. Furthermore, as a commercial sucess, many have hailed it as a landmark in the maturity of the Australian film audiences.