Fresh Air

A social realistic film about a week in the life on three young Sydney-siders. The two girls Kit and E spend a lot of their time going from protest rally to protest rally, as we watch Jack go about his life - watching soccer & visiting his parents.

A simple & elegant movie, that if you're un-attentive, seems to go nowhere, but achieves quite a beautiful portrayal of the life's of three people that are easily related to. The humour is simple & plays on the fact that we all know people, or are people, like Jack, E & Kit.

Not for people after an action packed, high paced movie, but definitely a worth while watch.

Just caught this on TV, wasn't sure if it would be any good but for some reason Nadine Garner caught my attention so I sat through the rest of the film. Turned out to be very good, aside from the shaky ending, but that may just be because I missed some vital piece of information from the start of the film that would have made it all fit together better.

Anyway, Australian films have a tendency to be pretty horrible, so this was a very welcome surprise.

Fresh Air covers a week in the lives of 2 girls and 1 guy who share a flat in the inner city Sydney suburb of Marrickville. And that's it. If you want to experience the most boring parts of these boring, pretentious little brats' lives, then I can't recommend this film enough. Watch the guy sit around and do nothing. Watch his girlfriend sit around and whinge about him doing nothing (who does pretty much nothing herself except, um. . .paint?). Watch their room-mate distribute her 'zines' which look about as meaningless as this film. The performances are pretty good, especially Nadine Garner as Kit, but the production values are shocking. Shaky camera work and bad cinematography does not help, even though it's supposed to be 'the style'. Sure, the film does well in showing us a slice of reality. Maybe too well. If this is the reality of the inner city 'scene', then I'm glad I'm not in it.

Thinking back on the film I would have to say that this film was actually a miracle and I feel fortunate that these filmmakers put in all that time and effort to produce this. It has stayed with me all this time and I am better for it. Bravo.

I really enjoyed it. It demands a second viewing. The directing and the acting were raw and kinetic.