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Looking for Grace
When their teenaged daughter goes missing, a couple and an investigator search for her while keeping their own secrets and stories hidden.
9 June 1930, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1963, Australia
4 November 1972, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
19 August 1973, Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
12 November 1973, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1936, London, England, UK
23 January 1962, Albury, New South Wales, Australia
February 04, 2016
[Brooks] just wants you to feel for these people. And you do.
January 28, 2016
What sometimes shapes as promising about a bitsy tale of an outback search for a missing teen is never quite delivered upon here.
January 29, 2016
Told in a fractured, non-linear style, with overlapping narratives retelling the story from different perspectives, the parts can be tantilising but the whole doesn't come together the way it should, the payoff being more of a whimper than a bang.
February 04, 2016
The actors are all strong, with Mitchell and Roxburgh (a long way from TV's Rake) putting in fine performances, and a breakthrough turn from Young, whose elusive Grace holds this subtle saga together.
February 04, 2016
With its painterly eye for the parched saltpans and wheat fields bisected by snaking roads, the film has a lonely, elegiac beauty. The unexpected comedy can give way in an instant to something darker, but it's never mean-spirited.
September 25, 2017
The main disappointment of Looking for Grace is the finale, which replaces the Altmanesque ensemble style with something reminiscent of Kiéslowski's last works.
February 04, 2016
A tender and bittersweet drama about the vagaries of life and the consequences of our actions.
February 04, 2016
Brooks generally is so bewitched by her characters' opacity that they remain frustratingly remote, even in the rare moments when they open up, diminishing the sorrow of the final-act tragedy.
February 04, 2016
The characters depicted are flawed in all sorts of ways, but Brooks's evident sympathy for all of them shines through and the result is an offbeat road movie filled with surprises and revelations.
February 04, 2016
It is really only when we're with Grace, and when the things that happen are happening to her, that we find any of the grace that Brooks is looking for.
September 26, 2017
Brooks' screenplay is wryly funny about human behaviour, keenly observing the awkward ways anxious people rub up against each other.
February 04, 2016
Even as its tone circles back to aching naturalism, there's something tenuous about the pic's tender resolution -- not to mention a teasing sense that more interesting untold stories might lie on the untold fringes.
