Slowly he realises he’s trapped in a time loop where a year just goes by every few minutes and he has to watch while his marriage slowly dissolves around him and life passes him by. She gives them a little wedding gift and the next thing we know, they’ve gotten married… and then, about 5 minutes into the wedding day, a year passes for Teddy. One day, while visiting Teddy’s father’s grave, they run into a strange woman (Noni Hazlehurst) who suggests heavily to them that they should hurry up and get married, which is a thing they’ve been putting off until the time is right. Long Story Short is about Teddy (Rafe Spall) and Leanne (Zahra Newman), a happy little couple who are having a perfectly normal life. An actual Australian film with a fully Australian cast and crew feels rare these days (I believe the last one I did was The Dry way back at the start of the year) so when I find something like Long Story Short I feel excited to get to share a piece of Aussie culture that might have slipped through the cracks… and then I watch it and realise that it probably fell through the cracks because it’s threadbare and can fit through those cracks very easily. Hell, the closest I’m gonna get to really doing Aussie films is whenever I talk about films that use us as a backlot. ![]() I really do wish that I got to review a lot more Australian films here, it feels like I should because there should be a lot more of them available but unfortunately (due to a complex series of issues surrounding tax laws and funding bodies) there just aren’t that many made.
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