Alphabet Lane
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Featuring Q&A with writer/director James Litchfield
Overview
Darkly funny thriller Alphabet Lane follows Anna (Tilda Cobham-Hervey) and Jack (Nicholas Denton), a young couple who have made a tree change from Sydney to the Monaro region. With the reality of their new situation failing to live up to their expectations, as a joke they invent imaginary neighbours to cope with their growing loneliness. As letters begin to arrive from their new friends, what started out as a joke soon comes to take over their entire relationship.
“Dark, well-paced, unsettling”
“Ambitious and beguiling”
“Unnervingly evasive...this is bold filmmaking”
Why See This Film
Alphabet Lane is the debut feature of writer/director James Litchfield, who taps into his childhood growing up on a farm in south-east New South Wales. A little gem made for under $1million, it takes an ingenious premise and uses it to explore slippery notions of communication and the emotional holes in a relationship, executed with an assuredness and restraint rarely seen in indie Australian cinema.
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