Louise Milligan

Jan 30, 2025 | themonthly.com.au | Kate Jinx |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan

It’s an all too familiar sight: a daughter in a rush, trying to get off the phone with her probing mother. Early on in Payal Kapadia’s sensuous, incandescent second feature All We Imagine as Light, we see Anu (Divya Prabha), a young nurse trying to wrap up such a call, fibbing that she must return to work: “Of course surgeries happen at night! As if a patient’s heart will wait!” But it’s her own heart and those of the two other women the film follows that are in a state of limbo.

Jan 30, 2025 | themonthly.com.au | Margaret Simons |Paul Barry |Louise Milligan |Don Watson

Is a biennial indigenous festival in Taiwan an attempt to atone for the grim truth of a people’s extinction? The November moon was behind the clouds, a brushstroke of white in the dark, when the first song began. There were flaming torches. An arrow was shot into the east. Four fires burned in the corners of the arena. Then a long line of people, arms interlinked, paced into the ritual grounds, their voices rising in a wave.

Jan 30, 2025 | themonthly.com.au | Harry Windsor |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan

Current Issue Newsletters Podcasts Login Subscribe February 2025 Arts & Letters In the tradition of Australian crime dramas about fatherless young men, the writer-director’s debut feature is a prison film derived from difficult personal experience The father is a presiding absence in Australian cinema.

Jan 30, 2025 | themonthly.com.au | Shaun Micallef |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan

I was about four when I first heard my grandmother use this expression. She kept a couple of toy cars under the couch for her grandchildren to play with. I couldn’t find either of them the day I visited and so I wandered into the kitchen, where she was usually to be found, baking cakes. “Up in any room behind the clock,” was her answer when I asked where the cars were. Halfway up the hall to the spare rooms I realised that what I’d been told didn’t make sense.

Jan 30, 2025 | themonthly.com.au | Tara Kenny |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan

The much-anticipated return of the series sharply satirising work-life balance is convoluted but still skewers the quiet violence of the corporate world Before his script caught the attention of director Ben Stiller and together they went on to create the lauded sci-fi office drama series Severance, writer Dan Erickson worked at a door company.