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LAST CAB TO DARWIN (Australia 2015) ****
Directed by Jeremy Simms
Starring: Michael Caton, Ningali Lawford, Mark Coles Smith
Review by Gilbert Seah
Based on the 2003 stage play by Reg Cribb, LAST CAB TO DARWIN is the story of a cab driver, Rex (Michael Caton). Rex who is diagnosed with stomach cancer, drives thousands of miles to Darwin in the Northern Territories where euthanasia is just legalized in order to to die with dignity. Rex is an unsavoury character and leaves behind the only woman Polly (Ningali Lawford-Wolf) who loves him.
This is the kind of subject that audiences turn away from. This might be the reason the film was hardly noticed when premiering at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The characters in Australian films are often harsh and crude, the landscape bleak and racism…
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