Still from opening night film with Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue being normal in a bleak, dark place on the endless highway of life.
The launch of the Sydney Film Festival program is a symbolic moment for the national arthouse calendar, since it signals the first of the major 2014 cinematic obsessa-slams for 2014.
We already have answers to the two great questions: who opens, and who closes the festival. Would Sydney go with The Rover from David Michôd and Liz Watts lead in? That would be a popular home town choice which always adds a certain buzz. What about Fell, a local first feature from a director of great promise, as a lower budget bendy alternative?
