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Acute Misfortune

Play trailer Poster for Acute Misfortune 2018,  1h 30m,  Drama/ Biography Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 93% 14 Reviews Tomatometer 71% Fewer than 50 Ratings Popcornmeter
93% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 71% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
A young journalist tasked with writing the biography of a renowned artist soon finds himself in a dependent and abusive relationship with his subject.

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Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald May 23, 2019
3.5/5
It's an uncompromising and complex film, a sort of horror movie about modern times. Go to Full Review
Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter Aug 17, 2018
An artist biopic that swaggeringly busts the limitations of the well-worn subgenre, Acute Misfortune is one of the year's most striking and accomplished directorial debuts. Go to Full Review
Karl Quinn The Age (Australia) Aug 6, 2018
While Thomas M. Wright's adaptation of Jensen's memoir of the same name attempts to frame this as an encounter from which both gained, it never quite becomes explicable as anything other than a bully-victim relationship. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Nov 20, 2020
A-
This tumultuous biopic is just as much about the journalist Jensen as it is about the great artist Cullen. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey 48 Hills Nov 10, 2020
...it has its own aesthetically stripped-down intensity, in addition to the emotional impact of a story whose torturing-tortured-artist center elicits both terror and pathos. Go to Full Review
Mark Dujsik Mark Reviews Movies Nov 3, 2020
3/4
Smartly, Wright doesn't play this material for horror or tragedy, although there is plenty of both... Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Thomas Wright

Director

Daniel Henshall

Adam Cullen

Toby Wallace

Erik Jensen

Gillian Jones

Ruth Marr

Geneviève Lemon

Carmel Cullen

Max Cullen

Kevin Cullen

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Acute Misfortune

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Movie Info

Synopsis A young journalist tasked with writing the biography of a renowned artist soon finds himself in a dependent and abusive relationship with his subject.
Director
Thomas Wright
Producer
Virginia Kay, Liz Kearney, Thomas Wright, Jamie Houge
Screenwriter
Erik Jensen, Thomas Wright, Erik Jensen
Production Co
Arenamedia
Genre
Drama, Biography
Original Language
Australian English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 1, 2020
Runtime
1h 30m
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