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Australian film Babyteeth stars Eliza Scanlen in bittersweet tale of first love soured by sickness – ABC News
Eliza Scanlen stars as teen living like she might die in Shannon Murphy’s debut feature, which comes from stage to screen via acclaim at Venice Film Festival.
“I’m gonna enjoy becoming a part of a sky like this, Dad,” Milla (Eliza Scanlen) tells her father (Ben Mendelsohn) as she holds up a camera, experimentally training its lens on the thick sheet of cloud overhead. A floppy felt hat protects the 15-year-old’s head, shaven in deference to the chemo she’s been undergoing for an unnamed form of cancer.
(Amongst the mostly punchy dialogue, there are a few such lines that perhaps would’ve rung truer on the stage, where Babyteeth began its life Rita Kal…
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