Look Both Ways

Interesting little Aussie film that I watched on DVD the other night. Man is run over by a train and the story then unfolds over a weekend. The witness, the train driver, the grieving partner of the dead man, the newspaper reporter(with wife and pregnant girlfriend) and newspaper photographer are the characters. William McInnes (the photographer, just diagnosed with cancer) and Justine Clarke (the witness returning from her father's funeral) are the leads. They meet at the accident scene.
It's a very visual film with minimal dialogue. Justine Clarke's character sees disaster waiting at every turn and clever animations are used to show us what she's thinking. Some of these sequences are hilarious. Given that the central theme is based around people dealing with death, or the prospect of death, these animations could have been really misplaced but they work brilliantly. The ending, however, was a bit disappointing.....a very fast-paced montage of still photographs covering, I assume, the rest of their lives. Blink and you miss a lot.
The performances are very good. I've never really been a fan of McInnes but he's excellent in this. Clarke is great too.
It's a 'real' film: real people, real dialogue, real emotions, etc.
Well worth watching.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382806/