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Absolutely Revolting
Film

Six Degrees of Aspiration: Recent Australian Films

‘Six Degrees of Aspiration: Recent Australian Films’ by Brian McFarlane

by Brian McFarlane •
November 2006, no. 286

It is one thing for Macbeth (of whom more in a moment) to chide himself for ‘vaulting ambition’; it is not, though, the first stick we would choose to beat Australian cinema with. Now, with 2006 nearly over and everybody saying what a good year it has been for local films, I want to identify ‘ambition’ as a key element in the making of this ‘good year’.

 


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