
The persona of a celebrated author is threatened when her best friend and muse reveals the dark secret behind her first novel's provenance, igniting an incendiary tale of sex, lies and betrayal.... (Full plot summary below)
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The persona of a celebrated author is threatened when her best friend and muse reveals the dark secret behind her first novel's provenance, igniting an incendiary tale of sex, lies and betrayal.
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| Graffiti With PunctuationBlake HowardDirector Mairi Cameron creates an prestige aesthetic that affects a sense of haunting isolation, and writer Stephen Lance's script manipulates time and memory to weave a disturbing tale of creation. What secrets are entangled in this fiction? |
| GuardianLuke BuckmasterThis remains, despite the onerous intellectualising, an engaging perspective explored with energy and verve. |
| Australian Book ReviewLauren Carroll Harris...the plotline unfolds with such a lack of clarity that it is hard to know what The Second saying about the sexual power, or disempowerment, of teen girls. |
| VarietyEddie Cockrell"The Second" is a sexy and satisfying thriller that toys with time, memory and the provocative side of storytelling. |
| Sydney Morning HeraldBrad NewsomeA mostly engrossing mystery-thriller anchored by terrific performances by Rachael Blake and Susie Porter, though in the end it's a little unmoored by its own unnecessary tricksiness. |
| Adelaide ReviewDavid 'Mad Dog' BradleyMairi Cameron's feature debut is a pretentious psychodrama with a strong cast struggling to sex it up and a sneaking suspicion that we're all being infuriatingly misled. |