Acclaimed international writer/director John Duigan (The Year My Voice Broke, Lawn Dogs, Sirens, Flirting, Head In the Clouds, Romero) has returned to Australia to shoot his latest independent feature film on Sydney locations with an all-Australian cast.
The film CARELESS LOVE is set in the aftermath of the world financial crisis when many have lost their jobs and thousands their homes. The story centres around Linh, a Vietnamese-Australian university student from a remote country town who is studying at Sydney University. Her father, in the building trade, lost his job a few months before the film starts, and the family’s home is likely to be repossessed. Linh starts working three nights a week as an escort, sending money home and also using it to avoid getting into debt through her university course. She believes she can separate her normal life from her work, and the film focuses on the challenges involved establishing an identity independently of how others – and society – perceive us. When her carefully partitioned worlds threaten to collide, Linh’s life and fictions become ever more tenuous.
