Despite the sort of filmmaking skills and techniques that make the most of the medium, the parts add up to more than the whole. Which aspects are a triumph and which are a disappointment will depend on what sort of moviegoer you are.

But as far as the type of projects, I’d be happy to just make movies with her forever. But I also don’t want to be so exclusive that I deny you more opportunities to see my work.

If you watch enough movies from Australia in the 70s and 80s, the men are all beer swilling ockers and the woman speak with British accents in an attempt that was popular at the time to distance them from real Australians, considered (even by the directors making movies about them) to be an international embarrassment.