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'Set in the summer of 1959, when the impact of European migration and the rise of women’s liberation is about to change Australia forever, a shy schoolgirl (Lisa) takes a summer job at the prestigious Sydney department store, Goode’s. There she meets the 'ladies in black', who will change her life forever. Beguiled and influenced by Magda, the vivacious manager of the high-fashion floor, and befriended by fellow sales ladies Patty and Fay, Lisa is awakened to a world of possibilities. As Lisa grows from a bookish schoolgirl to a glamorous and positive young woman, she herself becomes a catalyst for a cultural change in everyone’s lives.'
Source: Screen Australia.
'When Ladies in Black director Gracie Otto first stepped up to direct her famous half-sister Miranda in 2023's The Clearing, she was more than a little bit nervous.'
'Screenings across the world are attracting new friends for Australia, reports the film’s co-writer and producer'
'Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black is not just a homage to classical filmmaking and 1950s Sydney, it is also a window into the cultural richness brought by post-World War II refugees. If only it had pushed darker themes further.' (Introduction)
'Two films, screening now, in very different registers: the light and the dark.'
'Screenings across the world are attracting new friends for Australia, reports the film’s co-writer and producer'
'When Ladies in Black director Gracie Otto first stepped up to direct her famous half-sister Miranda in 2023's The Clearing, she was more than a little bit nervous.'
'Growing up in Western Sydney near the migrant camp at Villawood meant Bruce Beresford had a personal connection to the characters in his latest film Ladies in Black.' (Introduction)
