This is director Gillian Armstrong's debut film (at only 52 minutes, this is a shorter feature film, possibly a 'featurette') and was shown with another shorter feature (Love Letters From Teralba Road) on release at arthouse cinemas in 1977. I saw it then as well as more recently when I came across the film on Youtube.
It contains a delightful performance from Ruth Cracknell as the aging Mrs. Bilson, who dreams of her life before old age. The two women discuss their lives, shedding light on the restrictions put on women at each stage of life.
It's a gentle, slightly angry, feminist film which signaled the direction Armstrong's career would take as she examined the world of Australian and American women in her next dozen films.
It contains a delightful performance from Ruth Cracknell as the aging Mrs. Bilson, who dreams of her life before old age. The two women discuss their lives, shedding light on the restrictions put on women at each stage of life.
It's a gentle, slightly angry, feminist film which signaled the direction Armstrong's career would take as she examined the world of Australian and American women in her next dozen films.