Screen Australia, VicScreen, the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund, SBS, and Orange Entertainment, takes its bow at the 75th Locarno Film Festival.
In the evasively-titled “Petrol,” the Russian-born filmmaker turns her gaze towards the city she calls home: the film ascribes a certain kind of decadent mystique to Melbourne, where Lodkina has lived for the last 10 years. “You don’t see cities portrayed in Australia that much,” the writer-director observes, “I think because people are drawn to the outback – as I was.
But after ‘Strange Colours,’ it was an exciting prospect to film something in the place where I live.”“Petrol’s” Melbourne is as seen through the eyes of Eva (Nathalie Morris), a film student who yearns for the kinds of life experience that will ground and shape her artistic sensibility.
She finds a sort of guide, a muse, in the enigmatic multi-disciplinary artist Mia (Hannah Lynch), who invites the thoroughly enchanted Eva into her bohemian circle.
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