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Separation City
Directed by Australian-based New Zealander Paul Middleditch and written by kiwi humourist Tom Scott, Separation City is a tale of marriage, bad sex and requited love.
Simon (Joel Edgerton) is a decent bloke, living in smug and comfortable suburbia with two children and sex life on hold, who falls for his wife's friend Katrien (Brit actress Rhona Mitra). While their marriages fall apart (to Danielle Cormack and Thomas Kretschmann, respectively), the pair begin an infatuation. They fumble a number of opportunities until a meticulously planned clandestine rendezvous in Berlin turns into a wild and crazy farce that threatens to rip their lives apart...
Starring Rhona Mitra, Joel Edgerton, Thomas Kretschmann, Danielle Cormack, Michelle Langstone, Les Hill
Directed by Paul Middleditch
Written by Tom Scott
Romance, Drama, Comedy | 1hr 47mins | Rated (M) | contains sex scenes and offensive language | Origin: New Zealand | Official Site »
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Making Second-Hand Wedding look distinctly second-rate, Separation is the Kiwi Generation X comedy drama we've all been waiting for. Like the similarly excellent small-screen Insiders Guide series, the action centres on Wellington and although it's portrayed as some kind of pristine, near windless wonderland, its central city provides an excellent backdrop for intertwining tales personal, public and political strife amongst a small group of friends.
Yes, veteran writer Scott can't keep his political nous and nose for satire out of a script jam packed with memorable one-liners ("I really wanted to go to assertiveness training but Joanne wouldn't let me") and vividly excruciating-to-watch scenarios. Often voice-overs are the last vestige of the damned (witness Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy) but here they give full voice to Scott's rich writing.
As well as bringing together some of New Zealand finest female acting talent (Jodie Rimmer, Cormack, Langstone), Separation also provides a wonderful showcase for Boston Legal hottie Rhona Mitra (whose performance is likely to boost male attendances at future NZSO concerts) and the 'Antipodean Ewan McGregor' Joel Edgerton (TV's The Secret Life of Us). A mix of Thirtysomething, Sex, Lies and Videotape and Australian TV's Murray Whelan series, Separation is "awesome with a capital O".
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Dominion Post (Graeme Tuckett)
3
Scott can write a stunning gag, but not until the very end of this film did I hear one conversation between a man and a woman that sounded like anything adults might actually say to each other.
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NZ Herald (Peter Calder)
3
Charming at moments but uneven in tone and peopled by caricatures.
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