Acute Misfortune
Type
Label
Acute Misfortune
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Rated: MA15+
Main title
Acute Misfortune
Runtime
268
Summary
Young journalist Erik Jensen (Toby Wallace) is assigned to profile acclaimed painter Adfam Cullen (AACTA award-winner Daniel Henshall), but this seeming-straightforward task unravels as Cullen invites Jensen to write his biography and begins to reveal a violently unprdictable side. Drawn in by the painter's lies and charisma, Jensen devotes years to his work. But as Cullen hurtles towards his own destruction, the relationship between artist and biographer grows increasingly complex. Acute Misfortune is an award-winning dual portrait of a biographer and his subject
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Subject
Content
Director
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor5
- Genre2
- Subject6
- Content1
- Actor4
- Director1