Wildhood
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Review by Troy Thrace 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 Patron

Wildhood 2021

★★★★½

Watched 17 Feb 2022

Ambient soundtrack, excessive nature shots and ACAB. The Troy Trifecta! What a wonderful coming of age flick that doesn't revel in the painful bits, but doesn't gloss over them either, balancing it all with extraordinarily uplifting sequences of queer affirmation and reconnection to Indigenous heritage and culture. These two parts of Link's identity are inseparable, wholly unique and a cause for cathartic celebration by the end. And what a gorgeous ending it is! Had them special movie goosebumps coarsing through me many times. There's a deep and profound empathy for the films characters and their connection with the nature that nourishes and nature they cherish. A thematic strand that is reinforced by a camera that finds itself lingering on the dirt in the ground, and on the rippling waters, on the lush land and in the ice cold lakes.

What a stunning opening night film for the Mardi Gras Film Festival here in Sydney. One of a few unmissable films in the festivals First Nations strand!

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