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Why everyone is in such a rush to escape from Australia simply beats me.
Even if you’re in the throes of a nervous breakdown, the place appears to be a five-star hotel the size of a continent.
Yet half the world’s celebrities are Aussies who seemingly couldn’t wait to get out. Kylie, Cate and Elle, not to mention Mel and Hugh . . . they’re scattered from Manhattan to Malibu to Tunbridge Wells. Perhaps the endless sunshine of Oz gets boring after a while.
Director Scott Major is trying to evoke undercurrents of delusion and murderous recrimination
Young mum Anna (Charlie Brooks) in the domestic thriller Lie With Me (C5) hasn’t found much she likes about the place
Being British, I really wouldn’t know. Young mum Anna (Charlie Brooks) in the domestic thriller Lie With Me (C5) hasn’t found much she likes about the place.
She and solicitor husband Jake (Brett Tucker) have moved to Melbourne from England to try to repair their marriage.
Anna is obsessed with suspicions that he’s having an affair — and hires a taxi so she can sit outside his law offices day after day, trying to spot him with his mistress.
Imagine doing that with a black cab in London. You’d need a bridging loan to cover the fare by lunchtime. At night, Anna can’t sleep for jealousy. She’s a nervous wreck. So she sits on the verandah, warmed by the breeze from their acres of lawns, and knocks back the local red vino.
Britain offers far worse settings for a breakdown. Anna could be an insomniac, wrapped in a Draylon dressing gown and perched on the edge of a garden trampoline in Tyneside, for example —
