![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If they really are trying, then I think that says a heck of a lot and it’s not to be discounted. I think when people want to be a better person, that shows their true colours. I would describe Sparra as an inherently good human being who’s trying to escape his dark history purely and simply because he wants to be a better person. It actually made the first part of the film make sense in a grander and more heightened way and in a deeper way. I found it so shocking and unexpected but I didn’t feel in any way that it was self-indulgent or precious. I read the script, it was very compelling, loved the character, la-di-da, all the things that draw you in when you’re reading something and you’re going, “yes, I want to play that.” Then about halfway through, there’s the big twist and when that happened, I was blown away. The Star had a chance to talk to Russell prior to the film’s first public screening on Friday. It’s a lot more disturbinglike the scene. Cut Snake isn’t as bloody as Carrie, but I find it a lot more violent, explains Russell. Merv has never mentioned Pommie and doesn’t seem too eager to see him, but he doesn’t turn him away. Distributed in Australia by Hopscotch and sold overseas by eOne Entertainment.Australian native Alex Russell, 26, plays Sparra Farrell, a man on the run from his past in Cut Snake, a film noir thriller set in 1973 in which he plays an ex-con whose efforts to live a straight and narrow life with his fiancée, Paula, is endangered when a former prison friend named Pommie tracks him down. Pommie (Sullivan Stapleton) claims to be an old friend of Merv’s, whom he calls Sparra. The film is produced with the assistance of Screen Australia, Film Victoria, MIFF Premiere Fund, Deluxe and Ingenious. Sparra is forced to battle not just Pommie, but also his own private demons, to save Paula and himself.Ĭut Snake will premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2014. As Pommie exerts his influence over Sparra to lure him back into crime and the life they once had, Sparra realises that he’ll have to fight to keep the past from ruining his future. Ruthless and charming, Pommie becomes the perfect houseguest and drops tantalising hints about Sparra’s mysterious history to Paula, who has no idea about her fiancé’s past. When the brutal and charismatic Pommie (Stapleton) tracks him down, Sparra finds himself falling back into a world that he thought he left behind. He finds honest work and becomes engaged to the beautiful Paula (De Gouw). Set in the mid-1970s, Cut Snake tells the story of Sparra Farrell (Russell), a fiercely private man in his twenties, who is trying to escape a dark and violent past and make a life for himself in a new city. Trevor Blainey (Noise) and Matchbox Pictures’ Michael McMahon (The Home Song Stories, Lou, The Slap) are producing. This project marks a return to feature films for director Tony Ayres (The Home Song Stories, The Slap, The Turning), from a script by Blake Ayshford (The Straits, Devil’s Playground). The feature has attracted an internationally renowned Australian cast, including Sullivan Stapleton (300: Rise Of An Empire, Animal Kingdom), Alex Russell (Chronicle, Carrie) and Jessica De Gouw (Arrow, Dracula).Ĭut Snake has also engaged some of the most talented crew working in Australia, including Line Producer Brendan Campbell (Nowhere Boys, Underbelly), Production Designer Jo Ford (Animal Kingdom, The Last Ride), Director of Photography Simon Chapman (The Loved Ones, The Little Death), Editor Andy Canny (Galore, The Slap), 1st AD Phil Jones (Top of the Lake, Animal Kingdom, Chopper) and Costume designer Cappi Ireland (Kill Bill I & II, The Home Song Stories). The film will be shot over six weeks at locations in and around Melbourne including Williamstown, Fitzroy, Warrandyte and Northcote. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN 'Well, this has been a day, hasn't it' Jiriel remarked to her family down in Cavern Hole, where they'd retreated to make room for the stung creatures and their healers to work up in Great Hall. Principal photography began yesterday on Matchbox Pictures’ new Australian feature film Cut Snake – a tense, psychologically-driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him is himself. ![]()
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