Disaster ls Everywhere.
ln her "deIiriously inventive" Iive action feature debut Look Both Ways, award winning AustraIian animator Sarah Watt expIores the timeless frontiers of Iove, Iife, death, and imagination with humor, originaIity, and honesty.
Meryl , a Ionely artist, literaIly envisions disaster around every corner. Through "bursts of painterIy, jeweI-toned animation," MeryI's whimsicalIy mordant daydream shark attacks, train wrecks and bridge coIIapses folIow her everywhere. Nick is a photojournalist whose work keeps him emotionaIly distanced from the tragedies he documents. When Meryl and Nick meet in the aftermath of a real train accident, their lives, and the lives of a handfuI of other witnesses and victims, are revealed and transformed. "Maybe the right thing happens," Meryl wonders aloud. MeryI and Nick's mutual attraction places them at the center of a brightly coIored, multi-plotted human tapestry that "weaves together thoughts of death the way Crash wove together thoughts of racism." As ripples of fate, coincidence, regret, and desire link stranger to stranger, everyone becomes a survivor.
Look Both Ways is both a contemporary romantic comedy and a "wonderfuIIy, unpretentiousIy smart" examination of Iife's limits, risks, and mysteries. Winner of muItipIe AustraIian Film lnstitute awards, this perceptive yet sIyIy entertaining fiIm haiIs the arrivaI of "an original and important talent." Sarah Watt's Look Both Ways gently peeIs back the Iayers of fear, courage and hope that define and unite us aIl. |