“Cornish is utterly magnetic… A performance of incredible depth and intensity”
- Ghita Loebstein, The Big Issue
“CANDY is funny, frightening and beautiful all at the same time”
- Megan Spencer, Triple J
“Stunning”
- Janet Hawley, Good Weekend
“A great cinematic realisation of a very gritty, poetic love story”
- Jo Chichester, Vogue
“The performances are searing, the script poetic, and the direction carefully judged … The film pounds out its own raw and compelling vision”
- Michael Adams, Empire Australia
“A film of lyrical beauty”
- Marta Jary, Rolling Stone
“One of the best films of the year, period”
- Aint It Cool
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“Moody, haunting and quietly captivating, Candy is the best kind of movie music.” **** Filmink
CANDY is a contemporary love story of startling beauty directed by acclaimed theatre direction Neil Armfield and adapted from the best selling novel by Luke Davies. In the title role, Abbie Cornish delivers a fearless portrayal of a young artist whose lust for life takes her to the edge of sanity. Heath Ledger breathes a sweet and tender optimism into Dan, a sometime poet lost in love with Candy.
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The cinematic adaptation of Luke Davies’s 1990s grunge-lit novel Candy finally makes it to the screen this month, bringing together all the right elements to deliver a knockout punch to critics of the Australian film industry.
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Coming so soon after Little Fish, Candy is a tough sell. On face value it’d seem another junkie drama starring an Aussie A-lister in-between Hollywood gigs. But despite familiar subject matter the film pounds out its own raw and compelling vision. The performances are searing, the script poetic, and the direction carefully judged. Just don’t mistake it for an easy watch.
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