Claudia Karvan won the 2010 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress for her portrayal of Julia.
2009 was the trough of the Great Recession. Homes were being foreclosed. Jobs were vanishing. The optimistic Boy Band pop of 1999 and the superhero boom of the mid-2000s felt grotesquely out of touch. Audiences no longer wanted to be entertained ; they wanted to be .
In a misguided attempt to "fix" things—inspired by a sermon she barely understood—Chloe made a choice that changed her life forever. By winter, as
These films show how 2009-era cinema interrogated rescue as an external intervention (aid, therapy, community) and as an internal reorientation.