Noah Taylor looking like the ultimate Melburnian in Predestination.
With the Regent booked for the State’s economic good, MIFF was forced again into Hamer Hall, which is at the stuffy end of the decor but allows lots of corners to talk in at the after-party.
The opening is completely ritualised and it is surely appropriate that Predestination is a time travel story which goes round and round with a teeny bit of wiggle room. Thus the speeches from Chair Claire Dobbin and Artistic Director Michelle Carey and Local Hero Geoffrey Rush and Louise (the Government) Asher deal with exactly the same sentiments as last year, but put a little differently. And the dress code has changed from formal to cocktail.
