South SolitaryHome-grown screen darling Miranda Otto co-stars with her thespian father, Barry Otto, in a gentle, wry period drama from Cannes Camera d'Or winning director, Shirley Barrett.
Meredith, an unmarried woman in her 30s, quietly resigned to her 'spinster' status, arrives at a remote lighthouse island to tend to rough-hewn home and hearth for her uncle Wadsworth, the newly appointed head lighthouse keeper.
Marton Csokas (My Father Romulus) brings a touch of Bronte's Heathcliff - gruff Welsh accent notwithstanding - to a finely nuanced performance as Fleet, the assistant lighthouse keeper and taciturn WWI veteran who thrives on the isolation life on the island affords him while Meredith rather more gamely attempts to befriend the local inhabitants.
Essie Davis (Girl with a Pearl Earring) and Rohan Nicol (The Pacific) round out a winning supporting cast.
"A very special film, both original and it its own way, quite a daring one.splendid" David Stratton, At the Movies
