A Cold Summer
| A Cold Summer | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Paul Middleditch |
| Starring | Teo Gebert Susan Prior |
| Cinematography | Steve Arnold |
| Edited by | Peter Whitmore |
Release date | 2003 |
Running time | 86 mins |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | under $500,000[1] |
| Box office | A$20,380 (Australia)[2] |
A Cold Summer is a 2003 Australian film. The writing of the film was highly collaborative with input from all the actors.[3]
Plot
Bobby, who is living in a car having left his wife, begins a charged sexual relationship with the married Tia. Tia renews a friendship with Phaedra, who has lost a boyfriend to heroin.
Cast
- Teo Gilbert as Bobby
- Olivia Pigeot as Tia
- Susan Prior as Phaedra
Production
It was the second feature film from Paul Middleditch, who was one of the leading TV commercial directors in Australia.[4]
Director Paul Middleditch lived with the three main actors for a number of months working on the screenplay. “I wanted to create a work that was a direct response to the emotional state I was in at the time,” he says. “I wanted to construct three truthful portraits of people dealing with death in their lives in radically different ways and to create an environment in which they could expose their real lives before the camera.”[3]
The film was shot over five days.[1]
Release
The film screened at the Sydney Film Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival.
References
- ^ a b Alexa Moses, "A Cold Summer", Sydney Morning Herald, 26 February 2004 accessed 12 November 2012
- ^ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 12 November 2012
- ^ a b Andrew Urban, "PRIOR, SUSAN – A COLD SUMMER", Urban Cinefile accessed 12 November 2012
- ^ "Paul Middleditch - NZ On Screen". www.nzonscreen.com. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
External links
- A Cold Summer at IMDb
- Review of film at Variety
- Interview with Paul Middleditch at SBS Movie Show
- Review of film at Film Critic
- Review of film at ABC Radio
- Review of film at Real Time
- Collected articles on film at Murdoch University
- A Cold Summer at Screen Australia
- A Cold Summer at BFI
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