BFF: The Plains

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BBFC RatingBFF: The Plains

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CertificateNot Rated
Year2022
GenreDocumentary
Director(s)David Easteal
Writer(s)David Easteal
LanguageEnglish
CountryAustralia
Running Time3HR
Extra InfoDirector David Easteal will be in attendance
SeasonBelfast Film Festival

You’ve never seen a film quite like The Plains, though you may have experienced it outside the confines of a cinema. Australian director David Easteal’s astonishing docu-fiction hybrid builds an immersive three-hour epic from a premise as ordinary as the daily commute.

Every day, middle-aged legal worker Andrew (Andrew Rakowski) leaves his office at 5pm for the peak-hour drive home through outer Melbourne; some days, his younger colleague David (Easteal himself) joins him. The men are friendly but not exactly friends, and their conversation across tangled highways reveals more of themselves — and of the male condition — than either realises.

With the camera never leaving the car’s back seat, Easteal has made one of the great, audacious modern road movies, a film about highly specific, magnified suburban lives that is also, on some level, about us all.

Screening as part of the 22nd Belfast Film Festival. Please note: all tickets are sold via the Belfast Film Festival box office. If you have any access requirements please get in touch with the box office before booking: boxoffice@belfastfilmfestival.org.

For more information about the festival please visit belfastfilmfestival.org.


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