The Good Looker

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The Good Looker
Directed byClaire Jager
Written byClaire Jager
Michael Jager
Produced byJohn Lewis
Starring Kerry Armstrong
Mitchell Faircloth
Leverne McDonnell
Paul Upchurch
Music by Paul Grabowsky
Running time
58 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

The Good Looker is a 1995 documentary film, created by Claire Jager, about the life of Melbourne artist Joy Hester. [1]

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Reception

In The Age Dennis Pryor says "This is a fascinating piece of work, a most courageous struggle with difficult material." [2] Adrian Martin, also in The Age, gives it 3 stars calling it an "imaginative and compelling documentary portrait". [3] Jane Freeman in the Sydney Morning Herald writes "This is an elegant and absorbing film, which interweaves acted vignettes with interviews with Tucker, Charles Blackman, Mirka Mora, Hester's sister and her friends." [4]

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References

  1. Dell'oso, Anna Maria (15 February 1996), "Feminist light on the life of a tortured artist", The Sydney Morning Herald
  2. Pryor, Dennis (20 July 1996), "Television", The Age
  3. Martin, Adrian (24 May 1996), "Bold plunge into a dramatic life", The Age
  4. Freeman, Jane (15 July 1996), "The Joy of art", The Sydney Morning Herald
  5. 1 2 French, Lisa; Poole, Mark (2009). Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute. Australian Teachers of Media. p. 257. ISBN   978-1-876467-20-3.