Reviews

Yet another example that much modern film and tv is a cargo cult - the makers saw something once that was entertaining and think that if they wander around saying things in front of a camera that they too have have made entertainment.

The writing is appalling, the direction non existent and the Days of Our Lives had more creative cinematography. The most jarring is the complete absence of atmospheric sound - the set is full of extras going about doing gold rush things but it's utterly silent.

Apart from a couple of older actors who valiantly attempt to something, anything, with the appalling material the acting is embarrassingly amateurish. In fact the whole thing is amateur hour.

I can't believe someone wrote this, someone made this and someone paid for this.

Set in a tiny isolated mining town in western Tasmania, Rosebery is a truly disturbing film. Watching it is visceral experience - the script, performances and cinematography combine make this a dirty & dark ride.

You have to see it.

This film was made on an oily rag with most of the actors untrained - the male lead is particularly amazing of the amateurs, a terrifying raging jerk.

It is the way this film is made that separates it from anything else like it - the experimental film techniques utilised throughout brilliantly underscore the seedy & crappy life in the town of Rosebery.

Only one other film has given me the same feeling as watching Rosebery 7470, and that was the masterpiece Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Both brilliantly executed exercises in feeling and mood.