Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (1999)
Length: 26 minutes
Synopsis
A short film based on a story by Archie Weller, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning is the story of a robbery gone wrong, an unplanned kidnapping and its consequences. A young white girl is kidnapped by three youths – two black, one white.
Curator’s notes
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning almost qualifies as a case of Stockholm Syndrome, with the relationship between the kidnap victim and the kidnapper Perry (Jie Pittman) depicted as a romantic one. Melanie (Alyssa McClelland), the daughter of a single parent, seems adrift, when she is suddenly caught up in the drama of a kidnapping. The character Perry prevents Willy (Sam O’Dell) from raping her, and for this she is thankful. The empathy shared by Perry and Melanie is framed as a possible romance that disrupts the relationship between the two cousins, Perry and Elvis (Luke Carroll). The film offers few answers or a resolution as to what the experience means to Melanie, and in the end what is presented is perhaps a possibility of characters trapped in an experience from which all are seeking some form of liberation.
Original aspect ratio: 16 x 9 (TV)
| Production company | Core Original |
|---|---|
| Producer | Pauline Clague |
| Director | Rima Tamou |
| Writer | Archie Weller |
| Rima Tamou | |
| Cast | Peter Browne |
| Luke Carroll | |
| Alyssa McClelland | |
| Sam O'Dell | |
| Jie Pittman |
Acknowledgements
Produced with the assistance of the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission.
