
Flicks, Andreas Heinemann
The Jammed is the Aussie film du jour, a bleak, gritty look into the lives of internationally trafficked sex slaves in Melbourne. After a long list of rejections from funding agencies, the completed film has been praised by critics across the ditch and is expected to be a big contender at the AFI’s, Australia’s home grown equivalent of the Oscars. Two people who won’t be cheering it on if it gets a nomination are the couple who walked out of the screening I attended during a particularly nasty scene. Maybe they were expecting something like “Pretty Woman Down Under,” but they missed out on the rest of a very good social-realist movie.
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