Third Person Plural (1978)

Directed by

James Ricketson

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A small group of actors and a director collaboratively developed a film about relationships. The story follows characters played by Bryan Brown and others as they navigate personal tensions. The movie was shot with a handheld camera and mixes improvised and scripted dialogue.

improvisationalintimateexperimentallow-budgetcharacter-drivennaturalisticrough-edgedhandheld

What happens

Third Person Plural is a 1978 film directed by James Ricketson and starring Bryan Brown. The script was devised by the actors and director in a workshop. Cinematographer Martha Ansara also appears in the film. Ricketson has since called the film an "experiment": I just wanted to see whether it would be possible to make a film on that small budget, shoot the whole thing with a hand-held camera, integrate improvised dialogue with scripted dialogue, work with a small core of actors on a character-based piece, which is what I did, and then to approach the editing of the film in an innovative way. Now, I happen not to like the film myself. Having done the film - it was fun to do it - I decided that I didn't like it, and it certainly wasn't the direction that I wanted to go in. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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