![]() If Milla’s life is positively affected by her unusual meeting with Moses, who is refreshingly honest about the problems he has, Milla’s parents are taken aback by the madness brought into their lives as a result of Milla and Moses’s interactions. ![]() Needless to say, Henry ( Bloodline‘s Ben Mendelsohn) and Anna Finley ( True History of the Kelly Gang‘s Essie Davis) are less than thrilled to make Moses’s acquaintance, though they also have some drama of their own to take care of. There is no poetry in cancer, and Babyteeth knows it well enough to balance drama and comedy to perfection, in a story that wants you to laugh along with it.īabyteeth is the story of Milla ( Little Women‘s Eliza Scanlen), a seriously ill teenager who falls madly in love with an older junkie that goes by the name of Moses ( Boys in the Trees‘s Toby Wallace), and decides to bring him home to meet her parents. When dramas tackle serious illness, whether physical or mental, the line between emotion and melodrama is a thin one indeed, and one that needs to be handled with little rhetoric and adequate tact. With Babyteeth, the up-and-coming Australian director manages to do what many before her have attempted, but failed, to achieve – that is, encompassing life at its most real, in all its absurdity, complexity and unexpected beauty. In Babyteeth, Shannon Murphy perfectly captures the absurdity of life, balancing irony and drama and teaching us that there are many sides to everyone.Ĭan a drama that revolves around a teenager who has cancer also be an ironic, endearing and often hilarious coming-of-age story? According to Shannon Murphy, it absolutely can.
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