Vacant Possession (film)
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Director Margot Nash Music director Alistair Jones Duration Country Australia | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Drama Screenplay Margot Nash Writer Margot Nash Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 23 May 1995 (1995-05-23) (Australia) Cast Pamela Rabe (Tessa), John Stanton (Frank), Toni Scanlan (Joyce), Linden Wilkinson (Kate), Rita Bruce (Auntie Beryl), Olivia Patten (Millie)Similar movies John Winter produced Vacant Possession and directed Black & White & Sex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vacant Possession is a 1995 Australian drama film, directed and written by Margot Nash. The film was nominated for 5 awards at the 1995 Australian Film Institute Awards.
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Plot
Following the death of her mother Tessa (Pamela Rabe), a young woman, returns after many years to the weather-beaten family home on the shores of Sydney's Botany Bay. But the old family home begins to bring old wounds more and more to life. The story unfolds through flashbacks yet as it progresses the flashbacks merge into the present as it becomes apparent that the situation Tessa has returned to is very much the result of that which passed before.
This is a film about memory - personal and collective. To quote the director: 'the story of a house, land and two families - one white, one Aboriginal - both living in the shadow of the past'. The deliberately ambiguous title could refer to the house itself, but also the history of White Australia (see Terra nullius).
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