Radiance: True Love
1998
Radiance: True Love
1998
- NFSA IDY2K0VFZH
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormFeature Film
- Duration1 hr, 21 mins
- GenresIndigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
- Year1998
- WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
Mae (Trisha Morton-Thomas) is wearing her mother’s wedding dress. Nona (Deborah Mailman) wants to bottle the ashes so they can take them to the island to scatter. Mae and Nona enter into a tug of war over the ashes, and the ashes of their mother spill all over Cressy (Rachael Maza).
Summary by Romaine Morton
- WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
Mae (Trisha Morton-Thomas) is wearing her mother’s wedding dress. Nona (Deborah Mailman) wants to bottle the ashes so they can take them to the island to scatter. Mae and Nona enter into a tug of war over the ashes, and the ashes of their mother spill all over Cressy (Rachael Maza).
Summary by Romaine Morton
- NFSA IDY2K0VFZH
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormFeature Film
- Duration1 hr, 21 mins
- GenresIndigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
- Year1998
- DirectorRachel PerkinsWriterLouis NowraProducerNed LanderCinematographerWarwick ThorntonCastDeborah Mailman, Rachel Maza, Trisha Morton-Thomas
Radiance Synopsis
Three sisters reunite for the funeral of their mother after having not seen each other for an extended period of time.
Radiance Curator’s notes
Based on the play of the same name by Louis Nowra, Radiance is the third feature film directed by an Indigenous person, following Jindalee Lady and BeDevil. The film explores the relationship between Mae (Trisha Morton-Thomas), Cressy (Rachael Maza) and Nona (Deb Mailman), and is one of the rare times in cinematic history that the emotional interior of the lives of Indigenous women have been explored, especially in a feature film format. The significance of cultural identity falls away to reveal three central characters who are concerned with notions of family, belonging, and home. Radiance is Perkins’ first feature film, and has won many awards.
Notes by Romaine Moreton
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