Look Both Ways (2005)

2005

100 mins

Directed by Sarah Watt
76%
75%
Drama
Romance
Award Winner

Four people struggle after hearing some life-changing news in this ensemble drama that won writer-director Sarah Watt the Discovery Award... More

Four people struggle after hearing some life-changing news in this ensemble drama that won writer-director Sarah Watt the Discovery Award at Toronto.

As the weekend looms, three troubled people are faced with potentially life-changing events. After her father's death, Meryl (Justine Clarke, Danny Deckchair) is forced to cut her bereavement short to focus on a deadline for work. Nick (William McInnes, Unfinished Sky), a reporter, awaits his cancer test results while his photographer Andy (Anthony Hayes, War Machine) is preoccupied with his girlfriend's unplanned pregnancy. When a train crashes near Meryl, Nick and Andy interview her - sparking a romance between Nick and the grieving woman.

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Look Both Ways (2005) | Ratings & Reviews

76_%58 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
75_%6,358 reviews
Audience score rating

"While [director Sarah] Watt begins to offer an interesting study in paranoia, tinged with some good comic moments, her multi-stranded plot and last-minute recourse to romance ultimately lost the interest of this viewer."

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Time Out

"Sarah Watt's film follows a group of disparate and desperate characters over the course of one of the most depressing weekends in movie history."

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The New York Times

"I watched the movie in a kind of fascination. It is poetic and unforgiving, romantic and stark."

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Roger Ebert

"Forging her own new path, animator Sarah Watt makes a delicate, empathetic live-action directorial feature debut."

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Entertainment Weekly

"A dreamy but tough ensemble indie that delivers its existential angst with a straight-up Aussie drawl."

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Empire Magazine

"Lapses in judgement occasionally jar - like the habit of playing middle of the road ballads over key scenes - but the central romance is touching enough to lock us in while bringing out the moral of this story."

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BBC

Look Both Ways (2005) | Details

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Award winner: Winner of the Discovery Award (Watt), 2005 Toronto International Film Festival
Rating: M, Mature themes
Runtime: 100
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country of origin: Australia