29th Aug 07

What:
Waitress (2006) and Trust (1990)

Where:
First Look at ACMI cinemas, Fed Square, Flinders St, Melbourne

When:
Fri Aug 31, 7pm

Watch the Waitress trailer:
Here http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/waitress/

Watch the first ten minutes of Trust:
Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVVrJHcWi58

Win:
A double pass to the double (both screenings). Just email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘I heart Kerri Russell'

Actress, writer, director Adrienne Shelly was found murdered in her apartment late last year. There's no better, more awful reason to revisit her work and see what made her an indie-cinema favourite, especially in Hal Hartley's Trust. An iconic example of ‘90s US arthouse filmmaking, even the opening credits of Trust look alarmingly like they're about to tell you that FRANKIE SAYS RELAX.

High school student Maria - all teased hair, red lips, impossible eyes - tells her father she's pregnant, and he drops dead of a heart attack; Matthew is a furious intellectual who carries a hand grenade as a security blanket. Is it love? Is there such a thing as love? Trust combines black comedy, offbeat melodrama, and an odd Nancy Drew detective subplot with Hartley's gorgeous flat pastels and the famously deadpan delivery of his actors.

Before her murder, Adrienne Shelly completed writing and directing the romantic comedy Waitress, which ACMI are premiering alongside Trust this Friday night. But tense yourself for the emotional gutpunch when the night ends with the final shot of Trust: the young, luminous, Shelly, framed alone. Now she's gone.

By Martyn Pedler

Format: Cinema

Mood: Whimsical

Keywords: Hal Hartley, ACMI, Flinders Lane