form y separately published work icon Fistful of Flies single work   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Fistful of Flies
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Mars is a sixteen-year-old Italo-Australian girl growing up in rural Australia in a conservative Catholic family. The film is about her struggle to pursue her sense of self in an often violent environment and about the love/hate relationship she has with her mother. The relationship goes through a powerful and emotional evolution during the film.

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Brazen Brides, Grotesque Daughters, Treacherous Mothers : Women's Funny Business in Australian Cinema from Sweetie to Holy Smoke Felicity Collins , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , November-December no. 23 2002; Womenvision : Women and the Moving Image in Australia 2003; (p. 167-182)
Contemporary Australian women filmmakers rework the romantic comedy genre to incorporate women and their experiences.
Brazen Brides, Grotesque Daughters, Treacherous Mothers : Women's Funny Business in Australian Cinema from Sweetie to Holy Smoke Felicity Collins , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , November-December no. 23 2002; Womenvision : Women and the Moving Image in Australia 2003; (p. 167-182)
Contemporary Australian women filmmakers rework the romantic comedy genre to incorporate women and their experiences.
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