"ELEGANT, GRIPPING, SEXY AND SEDUCTIVE" - 4 STARS FROM CINEMA AUSTRALIA
It’s been four years since My Mistress – a daring S&M drama which introduced us to an exciting new talent in writer and director Stephen Lance. It’s only fitting that The Second, from a script by Lance, introduces us to another electrifying new voice in Australian cinema, director Mairi Cameron. The Second makes for captivating viewing with more twists and turns than the Great Ocean Road. Lance’s script is well-layered without ever becoming too complex, but detailing the film
MENAGE A TROIS WITH A TWIST - VARIETY
“This is what happens when you make up stories,” one character says about three-fourths of the way through the confidently ambitious “The Second,” and the line is a succinct summation of the deceptively deep goings-on beneath the film’s faintly sordid surface. The maiden project developed and produced under the Screen Queensland Originals program in partnership with the streaming service Stan (the film is playing commercially now and will commence it’s Stan stand July 20), “T
