Heavenly Creatures - 1994 - 7/10
Schoolmates Juliet and Pauline are fast friends, too close if you ask their parents.
Possibly a bad influence on each other, to boot.
They are obsessed with themselves, their relationship, and the fantasy world of Borovnia they create and live in.
Borovnia, ruled by Diello, is a glorious riot of plants, colors, castles and scheming.
This Fourth World is far removed from the ordinary Australian day to day, and insufferable parents.
The first Peter Jackson film that I really took notice of is an imaginative telling of fevered love.
Based on true incidents of 1956.
Many years later, I attended an author reading (from one of the “girls”). No one in the audience asked.
