Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ‘The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
Laughter and wails are almost interchangeable. That tension makes the film excruciating but exciting; like the characters, the viewer has to try to suss out what is a danger and what is just a good time.
Vanity Fair
This slip of a movie works best as a tone poem about the constant maneuvering young women do through the waters of toxic masculinity, a Superfund site that seems unlikely to ever be un-polluted.
Book & Film Globe
| Genre |
DramaThriller
|
| Runtime | 91 minutes |
| Rated | 14A |
| Directed By | Kitty Green |
| Starring | Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Herbert Nordrum |
| Language | English |
| Country |
Australia
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