Image: Kerry, Josie, Diana and Gillian (SA Film Corp)
Love Lust & Lies is the fifth film in the documentary series Gillian Armstrong has been making about the lives, hopes and dreams of three ordinary, but extraordinary, Adelaide girls since they were fourteen in 1976. Now they are 47, the women’s stories resonate with universal themes of growing up, work and money, love lost and found, marriage, and the conflicts and complexities of family life.
In an astonishing opening weekend Love Lust & Lies took over $13K on one screen at the Nova Carlton box office in Melbourne.
Tomorrow, May 20 it opens in its “home state” at Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas.
In an Australian twist on the popular English film series ‘7-up’, director Gillian Armstrong has followed the lives of three Adelaide women: Josie, Diana and Kerry, since 1976. Beginning with her subjects at age 14 (Smokes and Lollies, 1976), before revisiting them at ages 18 (Fourteen’s Good: Eighteen’s Better, 1980), 26 (Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces, 1988) and 34 (Not Fourteen Again, 1995), Armstrong’s latest and possibly final instalment finds the women in their late forties. Recapping the highlights of her earlier films, Armstrong not only provides a fascinating insight into not only the changing opinions, attitudes and lifestyles of her subjects but also the evolution of the Australian suburban landscape. In 2009 the women of LOVE, LUST AND LIES fascinatingly find life coming full circle in what is an engaging and entertaining film experiment.
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