Film No. 69. HE AIN'T HEAVY. (2024). 21st Oct.

 

Film No. 69 (2024) October 21st.  7:00 PM  LUNA CINEMA, Cinema 2,  Leederville.

"Mum, I know this looks crazy, but I feel like this might just work" (Jade explains to her mum that the situation she has created may be the answer).

  NOMINEE: Official Selection (David Vincent Smith) Sydney Film Festival.

The cinema  presents us with heroes of many kinds, so where should Leila George's, Jade, stand in the spectrum of heroes who shake our senses to the core? A hero we won't be able to forget for a time.

First time feature film director David Vincent Smith gathers all his courage here to tell a personal story about his own family. Jade being the embodiment of how he believed he should have acted in relation to his predicament. Having a sibling dealing with an addiction, tearing the heart from a family of substance, is on show in HE AIN'T HEAVY. Smith knows what Jade needs to do to prove to herself that she tried everything to save her brother and thus her family. Smith's film is very accomplished. It's a powerhouse of a film.

Gathering Gretta Scacchi, daughter Leila George and VIKINGS: VALHALLA, Sam Corlett together was the lucky break West Australian film-maker Smith needed to bring his story to the world. He has not wasted a second of their time, or ours; the ending in particular is classy!  11GUMS.