Aussie filmmaker Shannon Murphy is the latest director to
make their initial step into the cinematic realm through a coming-of-age story.
It’s also the latest of a thankfully-increasing number of female-focused
stories in this sub-genre. Not that either of those descriptors really end up
doing this work justice. One of the side effects of watching so many bloody
movies is that, naturally, you’ll come across a lot of story ideas and
techniques being repeated. Not out of deliberate mimicry (most of the time, at
least), but because there are only so many ways to tell these kinds of stories.
Enter this film, which leaves just about every other coming-of-age film
in the dust.
