The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Life Without Principle
When
Wed 3 Jun 2026
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A financial thriller built from intersecting strands – a small-time gangster scrambling for relevance, a loan officer nudged into predatory sales, and an overextended cop circling the fallout. Part of the post-GFC trickle of “we should’ve seen this coming” cinema, To’s mix of low-key absurdity and criminal opportunism is as much ironic farce as cautionary tale. Ordinary people collapse under forces they barely grasp, and capitalism reveals itself as just another of To’s rigged games, exposing the moral fault lines of everyone from swaggering crooks to bewildered pensioners.
35mm print courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive, Australia.
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