GHOSTS… OF THE CIVIL DEAD
Some Media Quotes
“Combining structural daring with thumping emotional power, this film is the best news from Australian Cinema since the hey-day of the Aussie New Wave”
- Harlan Kennedy, Film Comment
“The most powerful film ever made in Australia”
- Andrew Urban, The Age, Australia
“Astonishing first film”
- Michel Ciment, Positif, France
“An amazing debut feature. A very tough film indeed, with echoes of Stanley Kubrick at his most uncompromising”
- Derek Malcolm, The Guardian, UK
“A real discovery, gripping, superbly photographed”
- Globe and Mail, Canada
“Presents some of the most horrifying images ever shown on screen. A masterpiece on the order of Goya”
- Brian Case, Time Out, UK
“Totally credible, superb acting”
- Liberation
“A prison drama of tremendous emotional intensity. The Australian cast is top-to-bottom superb”
– Hollywood Reporter
“Ambitious confronting first feature”
-Variety
“Explosive revelation of Venice”
- Film Comment, USA
“Unquestionable Talent”
- Corriere Della Sera, Italy
“A brilliant and authentically shocking film.. made with meticulous skill and technical flair.. nothing I have seen compares with Ghosts in the power of its ideas and the intensity of their treatment”
- The Australian