Lost and Found

Herald rating: *

This low-budget Australian film had no involvement from funding agencies which may explain why it was made.

A ponderous and dramatically inert psychological drama that seems about three times as long as it is, it's the story of star architect McKenzie Morgan (Climo) whose professional and private life begins to unravel when he is haunted by hallucinations and stalked by a hobo.

With the help of a psychiatrist, he begins to delve into the past, but when he discovers what's eating him, it's so banal it feels like a rip-off.

The arty cinematography gives it the look of a film-school project, although the editing - mannered or incoherent and sometimes both at once - suggests it may not have got a very good mark.

The clunky dialogue makes you wonder if the writer's first language is English. A character called Ebenezer Wrench, apparently from Eastern Europe, gives some sense of it.

CAST: Rebecca Gibney, Brett Climo, Nicholas Hope, Frankie J. Holden, Sharn Hammond
DIRECTOR: David Blake
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes
RATING: M
SCREENING: Rialto