So I wanted to watch an early film of Miranda Otto's and came across this one from 1996. It had a really good pedigree, winning the Caméra d'Or at Cannes that year, so I settled down. It follows (at a slow pace), a three-times divorced radio DJ ("Ken Sherry", unabashed Barry White fan) who moves to a small rural town in Australia. He moves in next door to sisters who vie for his affections - the elder is quite desperate (protesting frequently that she is not) after her fiance was killed by a chainsaw accident; and the younger (Otto) is ... strange ... and eventually thinks that Sherry migh…
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