Modern Love
The debut film from Australian director Warwick Thornton, Samson and Delilah – a road movie about two homeless teens trekking across the Northern Territory – has won many plaudits internationally, including the Camera D’or at Cannes and Best Film at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. The filmmaker describes it as “Romeo and Juliet but set in an Aboriginal community.”
Tara Brady, 31 Mar 2010
“We auditioned for the roles around the schools and communities and town camps in Alice Springs, talking to principals and chairmen and families. We explained we were making this film and people knew my other documentary films so it was all very organic. People started suggesting names and then we talked to their families and got their permission to take a photo and do an audition. It was very tightly scripted down to the brush of an eyelash but what Marissa and Rowan had was chemistry and timing that I hadn’t anticipated. It was great to watch.”
It was no mean feat for the two stars who remain silent for most of their time on film; “I always knew Samson would be mute because I was mute around girls at that age,” laughs the filmmaker. “I never understood those films where teenage boys would walk right up to a pretty girl and start into an interesting monologue. When I was in love for the first time, it was all nerve endings and electricity and feelings I didn’t quite understand. I could just about spend time near the girl, but there was no way in hell I could talk to her.”
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