Restraint was backed by the government.s screen agency, directed by one of the country.s top Tvc directors, and starred rising talent. Brendan Swift finds out why a $5 million taut-thriller gathered dust for years before a one-week cinema run in 2009. Restraint will be shown on TV this weekend on Channel Nine at 9.30pm on Saturday, April 14. (This article originally appeared in If #121, June 2009.)
It was an auspicious day. On April 2, Restraint had its premiere at inner-Sydney.s Chauvel Cinema . a small dual-screen complex better known for showing small Australian and art-house films. Among the cast and crew were respected director of photography Simon Duggan (I, Robot, Knowing), co-producer Anna Fawcett, and top TV commercials director David Denneen. But Denneen would give no speech that night. It had been almost four years since cameras stopped rolling and the film.s long-delayed release was less a celebration than a Pyrrhic victory.
It was an auspicious day. On April 2, Restraint had its premiere at inner-Sydney.s Chauvel Cinema . a small dual-screen complex better known for showing small Australian and art-house films. Among the cast and crew were respected director of photography Simon Duggan (I, Robot, Knowing), co-producer Anna Fawcett, and top TV commercials director David Denneen. But Denneen would give no speech that night. It had been almost four years since cameras stopped rolling and the film.s long-delayed release was less a celebration than a Pyrrhic victory.
- 4/11/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
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