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Parklands (1996)

Parklands poster
Directed by
Kathryn Millard
Genre
drama film
Country
Australia
Runtime
51 min
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman returns to her hometown of Adelaide and encounters fragments of the city's past through old promotional films. The movie weaves her personal story with these archival images.

intimatecontemplativemelancholicquietobservationalnostalgicunderstatedbittersweet

What happens

Parklands is a 1996 Australian drama film written and directed by Kathryn Millard, starring Cate Blanchett in an early role. The 51-minute-long movie includes Chamber of Commerce-style promotional material about Adelaide that was made in the 1950s and '60s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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