A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Acting
Ledger's twitchy, tender physicality—every gesture screams need.
Writing
Dialogue that romanticizes and horrifies in the same breath.
Cinematography
Warm golds rotting into clinical blues—visual relapse.
Director
Neil Armfield
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