While the film season in the U.S. sees January/February as
the dumping ground for the previous year’s leftovers, it’s the complete
opposite case in Australia. The beginning of the year marks Oscar season, the
time when all the big awards contenders that haven’t already been released are
brought to the masses en masse. Since my recent cinematic compulsion began a
few months after that season, I unfortunately missed more than a few of them.
As my inevitable year-end lists would be conspicuously incomplete without
mention of such films, I plan on using my new-found extra time to look back and
see as many of these as possible before the New Year. As such, what better way
to start than with one of the biggest critical darlings of that season? This is
12 Years A Slave.