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Acute Misfortune first-look review – Adam Cullen biopic is an enthralling, complex triumph
With a brilliant performance by Daniel Henshall, this hauntingly poetic film asks if we celebrate the wrong kind of people
- Luke Backmaster
- The Guardian
Does Australia celebrate the wrong kind of people, and the wrong kind of art?
This question bounced around my mind for days after watching Acute Misfortune – a beautifully made and intensely thoughtful portrait of the life of controversial Archibald-winning painter Adam Cullen, based on the journalist and Saturday Paper editor Erik Jensen’s wild and compelling book of the…
There is a scene in…