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Melanie Lynskey On Hello I Must Be Going, Heavenly Creatures Training, And Songs For Getting Into Character

Melanie Lynskey On Hello I Must Be Going, Heavenly Creatures Training, And Songs For Getting Into Character

New Zealand native Melanie Lynskey finds her way to the spotlight – at long last – playing a woman, stuck in a sadly hilarious vortex of post-divorce depression, who’s jolted out of her early mid-life ennui by an electrifying affair with a younger man (GIRLS’ Christopher Abbott) in Todd Luiso’s Hello I Must Be Going. It’s an extraordinary dual capacity for deeply-felt pathos and comedy that Lynskey possesses and showcases, often simultaneously, as Amy Minsky; for Lynskey, one of the most genuine actors in the game, it was the kind of role that’s come along all too infrequently in the nearly two decades since her assured debut at the age of 15 in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures.
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Sundance Diary: Aussie Thriller Wish You Were Here Opens Fest in ‘Excruciating’ Style

Wish You Were Here

That was excruciating,” exhaled director Kieran Darcy-Smith as the lights came up on the Sundance opening night premiere of his first feature, the Australian dramatic thriller Wish You Were Here. The theater buzzed with appreciation, sure enough, and the film’s emotional blows strike as sharply thanks to strong performances by Joel Edgerton and Felicity Price. But movies like these almost always prompt that irksome question: Are we all at risk of suffering a case of the film festival goggles?
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