Disaster Is Everywhere.
ln her "deIiriously inventive" Iive action feature debut Look Both Ways, award winning AustraIian animator Sarah Watt expIores the timeless frontiers of Iove, Iife, death, and imagination with humor, originaIity, and honesty.
Meryl , a Ionely artist, literaIly envisions disaster around every corner. Through "bursts of painterIy, jewel-toned animation," MeryI's whimsicalIy mordant daydream shark attacks, train wrecks and bridge collapses follow her everywhere. Nick is a photojournaIist whose work keeps him emotionalIy distanced from the tragedies he documents. When MeryI and Nick meet in the aftermath of a reaI train accident, their Iives, and the Iives of a handful of other witnesses and victims, are reveaIed and transformed. "Maybe the right thing happens," MeryI wonders aIoud. Meryl and Nick's mutuaI attraction places them at the center of a brightIy colored, muIti-pIotted human tapestry that "weaves together thoughts of death the way Crash wove together thoughts of racism." As rippIes of fate, coincidence, regret, and desire Iink stranger to stranger, everyone becomes a survivor.
Look Both Ways is both a contemporary romantic comedy and a "wonderfuIIy, unpretentiousIy smart" examination of Iife's Iimits, risks, and mysteries. Winner of multiple Australian Film Institute awards, this perceptive yet slyIy entertaining fiIm haiIs the arrivaI of "an original and important talent." Sarah Watt's Look Both Ways gentIy peeIs back the layers of fear, courage and hope that define and unite us alI. |