There is a certain bias on IMDb. For this little film there are already listed five external reviews, while films in other languages remain without review. IMDb focuses on productions in the English language, both in searches and for indexing reviews.
So here is another contestant for the Horizons competition. It is about fatherhood.
Jimmy is addicted to gambling. He has debts and tries desperately to collect the money for a loan shark. He has also to take care of his son Alex. They have a strained relationship. Gradually we learn that Jimmy is copying the pattern he experienced with his own father. He decides to break with the past and make way for the future.
Much of this plot has been seen before. The gambling part is default household inventory, such as the run against time to get the money. Also the final shift, yeah, he was a good father after all is less than surprising. This could be labeled as Australian social realism, but Australia appears only as backdrop.
On the whole this appears more like a journeyman's piece - and a promise that we might expect more from this director in the future.
5/10
So here is another contestant for the Horizons competition. It is about fatherhood.
Jimmy is addicted to gambling. He has debts and tries desperately to collect the money for a loan shark. He has also to take care of his son Alex. They have a strained relationship. Gradually we learn that Jimmy is copying the pattern he experienced with his own father. He decides to break with the past and make way for the future.
Much of this plot has been seen before. The gambling part is default household inventory, such as the run against time to get the money. Also the final shift, yeah, he was a good father after all is less than surprising. This could be labeled as Australian social realism, but Australia appears only as backdrop.
On the whole this appears more like a journeyman's piece - and a promise that we might expect more from this director in the future.
5/10
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