Non-Australians may not be aware of Sarah Watt, unless they are interested in Australian film. Sarah Watt is an animator-writer-photographer-film director who made a small number of well-reviewed films, one of which, My year without sex, I reviewed on this blog. Sarah (aged 53) died on Friday from secondary bone cancer (diagnosed in 2009), having been originally … Continue reading Vale Sarah Watt
Sarah Watt
Cute but not cutesy
Cute has become a much maligned word but it originated as a shortened form of acute and meant "keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd". This, I think, works well as a description of Sarah Watt's latest film My Year Without Sex, particularly when combined with more recent meanings of the word such as "charming". (WARNING: SOME SPOILERS) The basic premise … Continue reading Cute but not cutesy