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Plot:
Beneath Clouds is the story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic eve...( read more 
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MCT:February 14, 2008An Australian film about an Aboriginal boy and an Irish/Aboriginal girl who are on a journey to Sydney. The film deals with racism, friendship, hardship, and the issue of troubled Indigenous youths.
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MCT:February 13, 2008
Although I've been wanting to watch this for awhile I have also been putting if off and now that I've watched I have no idea why. It's not like the acting was anything to write home about but the story was good, depressing but good. It might even be a possible tear jerker or perhaps that was just me.
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MCT:December 18, 2007
Lena (Danielle Hall) is a fair-skinned Aboriginal girl living in a small isolated country New South Wales town. She longs for the Irish father she never really knew. One day she decides to leave the town, hitting the road with little money, a backpack and a photo of her dad. Vaughn (Damian Pitt) is an Aboriginal teenage boy in a minimum-security prison. He is hardened by his anger at the world and spends his days woking in the prison pine plantation. He is disconnected from his family, but news of his mother's illness prompts him to break out of prison in the hope of reaching her before it is to late. Vaughn meets Lena at a truck stop on the road to Sydney. Initially both are suspicious and wary of each other, but their journey, mostly on foot and the odd lift, brings them closer to their search for purpose, identity and love.
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MCT:December 18, 2007trailers at this site
http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/beneath-clouds/clip1/
Lena (Danielle Hall) is a fair-skinned Aboriginal girl living in a small isolated country New South Wales town. She longs for the Irish father she never really knew. One day she decides to leave the town, hitting the road with little money, a backpack and a photo of her dad. Vaughn (Damian Pitt) is an Aboriginal teenage boy in a minimum-security prison. He is hardened by his anger at the world and spends his days woking in the prison pine plantation. He is disconnected from his family, but news of his mother's illness prompts him to break out of prison in the hope of reaching her before it is to late. Vaughn meets Lena at a truck stop on the road to Sydney. Initially both are suspicious and wary of each other, but their journey, mostly on foot and the odd lift, brings them closer to their search for purpose, identity and love. -
MCT:June 16, 2007a beautiful and touching australian movie with some outstanding performances from some minute actors.
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MCT:February 5, 2007
The simple ideas are the best: a film about a boy and a girl walking along a road can speak more purely than a cashed-up film can. "Beneath Clouds" is a low budget Australian film that has a devestatingly simple concept and a devestating impact.
Two teenagers-Aboriginal prison-escapee Vaughn trying to reach his dying mother and half-Aboriginal Lena who is searching for her Irish father- cross paths along a highway in rural NSW. They walk along together, sometimes hitching rides, sometimes talking, sometimes silent on the road to Sydney. The surrounding landscape is all-encompassing. In its cliffs and gumtrees can be read memories of the brutal past- of Aborigines being pushed off cliffs by white settlers. Cornfields tell the story of these settlers and whisper the fate of the land.
Thefilm moves at a reflective pace but this means that it's scope is vast. More can be read in these fluid images of the abstract Australian landscape than in icon-plagued media-saturated Sydney.
