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form y separately published work icon Lantana single work   film/TV   thriller  
Adaptation of Speaking in Tongues Andrew Bovell , 1996 single work drama
Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Lantana
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'A woman disappears. Four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death. Not all of them survive. LANTANA is a psychological thriller about love. It's about the mistakes we make, the consequences we suffer, and the attempts we make to fix things up.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 4/12/2013)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Form: screenplay
    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2001 .
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      Alternative title: Lantana : Original Screenplay
      Extent: 97p.p.
      Description: illus., ports
      ISBN: 0868196592

Works about this Work

Fluid Adaptive Revision and Twin-Track Authorship: Andrew Bovell’s Lantana Series from Stage to Screen A.I. Finch , Heebon Park , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: English Studies , vol. 104 no. 7 2023; (p. 1267-1286)

'This article examines Andrew Bovell’s Lantana series, arguing that his adaptive transformation of his own texts offers a notable exposition of auto-adaptation as an organic process. The ten-year creative and selective journey, in which the Australian playwright explores the themes of loss, trust, betrayal, entanglement, and emotional disconnection, began with the 1992 one-act play Like Whiskey on the Breath of a Drunk You Love and culminated in the 2001 award-winning film Lantana, offering an insight into fluid revision and twin-track authorship. Bovell’s screenplay retells and reimagines the events and themes of its four predecessors, crafting his ideas on the precarity of human relationships and the nature of truth into a tight, reflexive structure, through fragmentation and musical orchestration. In conclusion, the Lantana series exhibits auto-adaptation as a continuous process of growth, in which the pre-texts function as independent works of art and as resources for further reimagining and adaptive revision.' (Publication abstract)

Vince Colosimo and Rachael Blake Talk About Reuniting for Stan’s The Second David Michael Brown , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 11 July 2018;
The 100 Best Australian Films of the New Millenium Erin Free , Dov Kornits , Travis Johnson , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 22 September 2016;
Classics Worth Re-Catching : Lantana (2001) Erin Free , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 29 April 2016;
In a Lamborghini Skill-Wise Eddie Perfect , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Andrew Bovell : The Alchemy of Collaboration 2015; (p. 53-56)
Close to the Bone James Burke , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Muse , November no. 212 2001; (p. 6)

— Review of Lantana Andrew Bovell , 2001 single work film/TV
Entanglements Tony Coady , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , October vol. 11 no. 8 2001; (p. 45)

— Review of Lantana Andrew Bovell , 2001 single work film/TV
Terror Australis Noel Purdon , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , October no. 217 2001; (p. 36)

— Review of Lantana Andrew Bovell , 2001 single work film/TV
Present ....... Evan Williams , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 October 2001; (p. 22-3)

— Review of Lantana Andrew Bovell , 2001 single work film/TV
Lantana : Rewatching Classic Australian Films Luke Buckmaster , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 13 December 2013;

— Review of Lantana Andrew Bovell , 2001 single work film/TV
'Let's Get Her' : Masculinities and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Australian Drama and Its Film Adaptations Christine Boman , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 76 2003; (p. 127-135, notes 246-247)
Explores the various strategies that playwrights and filmmakers employ to represent masculinities, especially in relation to acts of sexual violence, in a number of texts.
Lost in 'Lantana' : Unreliable Narration and Troubled Masculinities Sissy Helff , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies , Spring-Fall vol. 12 no. 1-2 2006;
Starry Night Shines Over Jindabyne Sandy George , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 17 July 2006; (p. 3)
The Critical List Evan Williams , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 December 2008; (p. 4-5)
Evan Williams surveys the possibilities and then selects his five favourite Australian films.
Home and Abroad in Moulin Rouge, The Dish and Lantana Felicity Collins , Therese Davis , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Cinema after Mabo 2004; (p. 22-40)
In this chapter Collins and Davis locate Australian Film within an international context in order to examine the interplay between globalisation, local industry strategies and national cinema in three Australian films. The films are analysed 'in terms of their industrial-commercial strategies within a national economic and cultural policy framework which positions Australian film as an international genre'. Source : Australian Cinema After Mabo (2004)

Awards

2008 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards Australia's Favourite Film
2001 winner Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Film
2001 winner Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Screenplay - Adapted
2001 won Melbourne International Film Festival Award Most Popular Feature Film
2001 won IF Awards Inside Film Awards Best Script
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