'Young Lebanese Australian John (George Basha) comes home from jail to live with his widowed mother (Doris Younane) and wild younger brother Charlie (Firass Dirani), who is still at school.
'Having learned his lesson the hard way, he struggles to stop Charlie from making the mistakes that he made. When he finds out Charlie has become involved in drug dealing, he intervenes, inadvertently putting the family in peril.
'Meanwhile John finds that assimilating into white Australian society is less than straightforward when he starts dating a young Caucasian woman called Sydney (Clare Bowen), whose parents are against her seeing a man from his ethnic background.'
Source: Australian Screen. (Sighted: 29/8/2013)
The Combination Redemption
The Combination 2
( dir. George Basha
et. al. )agent
Australia
:
Trademark Films
,
2019
10406114
2019
single work
film/TV
'Six years on and John is still hurting at the death of his brother Charlie. Now its time for John to make the right choices.' (Production summary)
'IN ARGUMENTS around movies, there will always be someone telling someone else to take the film on its own terms; don’t ask a Western to be a contemporary suburban soap, don’t ask the soap to be a documentary. But it’s not always that easy; people do read themselves into Neighbours, their neighbours into Kath and Kim; and the boundaries keep on blurring. There are still, and lucky for us, great examples of classical narrative (from the past year or so, The Painted Veil and Gran Torino); outside its field, drama, fiction, documentary and film-essay shade into each other. We go to all of them looking for strangeness, wanting to be surprised, and wanting also to have what’s familiar played back. When Jean-Luc Godard said that “cinema is truth twenty-four times a second” he wasn’t talking about the photographic registration of material facts, but about what the complex organisation and re-organisation of sounds and images makes possible for imagination, empathy, insight.' (Introduction)
