Concealed (film)

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Concealed
Directed byShane T. Hall
Written byShane T. Hall
Produced byJacqui Fifer
Lyall Sumner
Jo McNulty
Starring Simon Lyndon
Paul Tassone
Joanne Priest
Yalin Ozucelik
Nadia Townsend
CinematographyOliver Lawrance
Edited byEleanor Infante
Music bySimon Whiteside
Release date
  • 2017 (2017)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Concealed is a 2017 Australian thriller film written and directed by Shane T. Hall.

Contents

Plot

Max returns home to Australia to find his girlfriend has gone missing.

Cast

Reception

Leslie Felperin of the Guardian gave it 2 stars, writing "Sadly, it’s more of a mud pie of contemporary thriller tropes that don’t hold together for long." [1] The Times's Kevin Maher's 2 star review was subtitled "This foolhardy film never feels like anything other than kitschy ‘let’s pretend’" [2] Anton Bitel wrote in RealCrime Magazine "Accordingly, as this hybrid film, all at once fish-out-of-water thriller and domestic tragedy, constantly switches between these two modes, it generates considerable ambiguity, even mystery from its own mismatched, dysfunctional plotting – with everything hidden in plain sight". [3]

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References

  1. Felperin, Leslie (31 May 2018), "Concealed review – Matlock-style thriller can't meet its Ibsen ambitions", The Guardian
  2. Maher, Kevin (1 June 2018), "Film review: Concealed", The Times
  3. Bitel, Anton (5 February 2019), "Concealed (2017)", RealCrime Magazine