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Awards
- IMDb. (2016). Girl Asleep awards. Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3955894/awards?ref_=tt_awdGirl Asleep won the: Adelaide Film Festival in 2015 for ‘Foxtel Movies Audience Award’, the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards 2016 for ‘Best Costume Design’, the Australian Film Institute 2017 for ‘AACTA Award for Best Costume Design’, the Melbourne International Film Festival 2016 for ‘The Age Critics Prize Best Australian Feature Film’ and the Seattle International Film Festival 2016 for ‘Futurewave Youth Jury Award Best Feature Film’.
- Karl, Q. (2016, August 9). Girl Asleep wins critics prize. Age, The (Melbourne). p. 8.The Age critics prize for the best Australian feature film at the Melbourne International Film Festival has been awarded to Girl Asleep, a unique coming-of-age story that combines fantasy, surrealism and a dollop of cringe and nostalgia-worthy 1970s style to great comic and emotional effect.
- CinefestOz: Adelaide film Girl Asleep claims Australia's richest festival prize. (n.d). ABC Premium News,Adelaide film Girl Asleep has taken out top spot at this year's CinefestOZ, winning Australia's richest festival prize of $100,000.
Introduction
Welcome to the Girl Asleep research guide created for Year 11 Media Production and Analysis ATAR students.
"The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and she's flung into a parallel place; a world that's weirdly erotic, a little bit violent and thoroughly ludicrous - only there can she find herself. Based on the critically acclaimed production by Windmill Theatre, GIRL ASLEEP is a journey into the absurd, scary and beautiful heart of the teenage mind."
Movie Trailer
Myers, R. (Director). (2016, ). Girl Asleep [Motion picture]. AUS: Windmill Theatre Company.
Summary
- IMDb. (2016). Girl Asleep. Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3955894/?ref_=nv_sr_1The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and she's flung into a parallel place; a world that's weirdly erotic, a little bit violent and thoroughly ludicrous - only there can she find herself. Based on the critically acclaimed production by Windmill Theatre, GIRL ASLEEP is a journey into the absurd, scary and beautiful heart of the teenage mind.
The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. - Flux, E. (2016, December 15). Girl Asleep. Retrieved from https://issuu.com/atompublications/docs/1_flux_girl_asleepThis article on 'Girl Asleep', by Elizabeth Flux, is from Metro no. 191 (Summer 2017).
- Kuch, A. & Hanna, B. (2017). Slumber party: Girl Asleep and growing into growing up. Screen Education, 2017(86), 8-17.In this uniquely Australian and highly theatrical coming-of-age tale, a teenage girl faces the loss of her childhood with the help of surreal dreamscapes and quirky characters.
Rosemary Myers (Director)
- Rosemary Myers. (2016). Girl Asleep. Retrieved from https://radio.adelaide.edu.au/rosemary-myers-director-of-girl-asleep/Rebecca Elliot of Radio Adelaide talks to Rosemary Myers about Girl Asleep, which premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival. Girl Asleep opened the Generation program at Berlin International Film Festival, especially for films with a youth angle, and will be opening nationally near the end of the year. Rosemary joined us in the studio, fresh off the plane from Argentina, to talk about the film and how they brought it from the stage to screen.
- Hawker, P. (2016, August 20). Girl Asleep star wide awake to creativity. Australian, The. p. 3.Rosemary Myer talks about casting Bethany Whitmore as Greta in the Australian film Girl Asleep. “She’s a passive protagonist, and that’s a challenge,” said Rosemary Myers.“We knew we had to find an actor who could carry a lot of the story on her face. That’s hard to find, but Bethany does it so beautifully.” Whitmore said Girl Asleep was about a journey, although her character barely leaves the confines of her bedroom. She plays Greta Driscoll, an adolescent girl plunged into a complex life of the imagination closely linked to the adult world around her.
Interview with Rosemary Myers
Filmquote Compile. (2016, September 6). Interview with Rosemary Myers.
Critics
- (2016, December 17). Asleep channels adolescent angst. Dominion Post, The. p. C15.Fifteen is looming large for Greta Driscoll (Bethany Whitmore). But while others at her new school believe the change in age will herald the "dawn of a new era" for them, she just wants it to pass without incident. That's unlikely though, with her mother Janet (Amber McMahon) determined to invite half her Forestville High class to a big bash.
- Merry, Stephanie. "'Girl Asleep' is a strange coming-of-age story: Surreal, amusing and poignant." Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2016."Girl Asleep" opens on Greta Driscoll's first day at a new school. With a worried brow and a freckled face, the 14-year-old sits alone on a bench while other kids on their lunch break flit around her, socializing, playing basketball, doing tai chi. Any wallflower will intuitively recognize her pain, suffered in distressed solitude.
- Flux, E. (2017). Dream Sequence. Metro, (191), 6-13.The article analyzes the film "Girl Asleep" directed by Rosemary Myers and starring Matthew Whittet and Bethany Whitmore. It discusses the coming of age theme of the film, introvert nature of the teenage protagonist in the film, the 1970s setting of the film in Australia, and views of Myers and Whittet on the psychology of teenagers, the film's success, and nostalgia and comedy in the film.
- Wilson, J. (2016, September 8). Charming, quirky take on teen travails. Canberra Times.Fourteen going on 15 is generally seen as the awkward age, but Greta (Bethany Whitmore) is having a particularly tough time. At school she has no friends apart from Elliott (Harrison Feldman), a gawky redhead with a tendency to overuse the word "awesome". At home her well-meaning parents (Amber McMahon and Matthew Whittet) keep urging her to come out of her shell, planning a birthday party despite her furious resistance.
- Quinn, K. (2016, December 16). Movie a cross between film set and party. Dominion Post, The. p. A13.Making Girl Asleep was a leap into the unknown, writes Karl Quinn.