Trailers for The Square and Animal Kingdom, 2 Hardcore Aussie Crime Films.

With the Horseman making it to DVD a few weeks ago and the impending North American releases of Nash Edgerton’s The Sqaure and David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom, Aussie crime drama is taking over.

Having already seen the Square and the Horseman (reviews forthcoming) I can testify that they understand grim and gritty. Looks like the country (and continent) of Australia is going to steal the crown from the UK and Korea as leaders of the pack in the revenge on film biz.

And Blue Tongue Films is at the forefront of this new crime movement from down under. Hesher, Animal Kingdom and The Square will all be assualting our senses sometime in 2010.

The Square.

Escaping the monotony of a loveless marriage, Raymond Yale has become entangled in an affair with the beautiful and troubled Carla. Ray’s moral limits are tested when Carla presents him with the proceeds of her controlling husband’s latest crime. This is their chance: Take the money and run…
If only it were that simple.

Animal Kingdom.

A high quality powerful psychological crime drama, ANIMAL KINGDOM is a story about the battle between Melbourne’s underworld and the police.

The film tracks seventeen-year-old Joshua “J” Cody (newcomer James Frecheville), a troubled kid perilously caught between his own criminal family and Detective Leckie (Guy Pierce) a compromised cop who thinks he can scare him. J comes to realize that in order to survive he must write his own rule book, he must determine how the game is played, he must somehow choose his place in the cunning and brutal animal kingdom.

ANIMAL KINGDOM is the debut feature of writer/director David Michôd whose previous short films have screened extensively internationally and in Australia, including the multi-award winning CROSSBOW. An AFI award-winning writer, Michôd also wrote the screenplay for this project.

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