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Life Could Be a Dream review – a powerful, polished Australian film about domestic abuse

Director Jasmin Tarasin weaves richly layered moments between mother and son – and darker flashbacks to what they left behind There’s something instantly unsettling about seeing a fully dressed person underwater – a visual motif perhaps most memorably deployed in The Piano , with Holly Hunter pulled into the ocean in full Victorian garb. The domestic abuse-themed Australian drama Life Could Be a Dream opens with a similarly haunting vision: a woman in a white dress suspended beneath the surface, engulfed in drifting clouds of blackness, the frame bathed in murky blue tones. Continue reading...

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According to The Guardian’s source item, Life Could Be a Dream review – a powerful, polished Australian film about domestic abuse, Director Jasmin Tarasin weaves richly layered moments between mother and son – and darker flashbacks to what they left behind There’s something instantly unsettling about seeing a fully dressed person underwater – a visual motif perhaps most memorably deployed in The Piano , with Holly Hunter pulled into the ocean in full Victorian garb. The domestic abuse-themed Australian drama Life Could Be a Dream opens with a similarly haunting vision: a woman in a white dress suspended beneath the surface, engulfed in drifting clouds of blackness, the frame bathed in murky blue tones. Continue reading…

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Life Could Be a Dream review – a powerful, polished Australian film about domestic abuseThe Guardian - 2026-05-13T15:00:04+00:00

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