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South Solitary (2010)

South Solitary poster
Directed by
Shirley Barrett
Genre
drama
Country
Australia
Runtime
2h 01m
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman travels to a remote lighthouse island off the Australian coast to live with her lighthouse keeper uncle. She forms a cautious connection with a solitary Navy officer who visits the island, while navigating the harsh isolation and her own loneliness.

isolatedslow-burnmelancholicromanticquietatmosphericrestrainedbittersweet

What happens

South Solitary is a 2010 Australian romance film set on South Solitary Island and directed by Shirley Barrett. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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