Rupe and Alma were partners in crime... the crime of making movies.
In 1939 Rupert Kathner (Ben Mendelsohn) and Alma Brooks (Victoria Hill) began a movie-making spree that took on the Hollywood barons, a corrupt police Commissioner and the cultural cringe all in their passionate pursuit to make Australian films. On the run from police across thousands of miles, they would stop at almost nothing to get their films made.
Special Agent Matti
Hunt Angels is surprisingly similar to another recently released Australian documentary, Unfolding Florence: The colourful life of Florence Broadhurst. Both involve a Little Aussie Battler™ with more charm than skill making their way in the big bad world. Both feature dramatic recreation and interviews. Both involve shady dealings. Both evoke a sense of larrikinism about their subject. Both stop short of lionising their subject. Both celebrate a never-say-die individuality. It's good, even if you aren't into the history of Australian filmmaking. Great cinematography.
M 15+ (Moderate sexual references)
85 minutes (1:25 hours)
Film: 30 November 2006
