1. Lantana | Rotten Tomatoes
Lantana is a murder-thriller set against the far more prevalent backdrop of romantic strife, taking a mature look at deteriorating relationships, betrayal, and ...
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers (Barbara Hershey) suspects that her husband John (Geoffrey Rush) is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat (Anthony LaPaglia) attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.
2. Lantana movie review & film summary (2002) - Roger Ebert
It discovers a web of emotional hope and betrayal. At its center is a cop named Leon Zat (Anthony LaPaglia) in the process of meltdown.
"Lantana" opens with a camera tracking through dense Australian shrubbery to discover the limbs of a dead woman. We are reminded of the opening of "Blue
3. Caught in the Web: Ray Lawrence's Lantana - Senses of Cinema
Sep 18, 2001 · The origin of the narrative and the character that remains at the centre of the film is police officer Leon Zat (Anthony LaPaglia), a man ...
Mark Freeman September 2001 Contemporary Australian Film
4. Guest Review: Lantana (2001) - flixchatter film blog
Sep 14, 2011 · Lantana begins with ambient music and a tracking shot of vegetation which eventually come to rest on a woman's corpse, face down so that we ...
Lantana begins with ambient music and a tracking shot of vegetation which eventually come to rest on a woman’s corpse, face down so that we can’t tell who she was. Then we meet the char…
5. Review: Lantana (2001) - Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell
Aug 11, 2022 · The film revolves around three couples who come together in rather unsuspected ways. Anthony LaPaglia is Leon Zat, a cop who is cheating on his ...
This is a Resurfaced review written in 2002 or earlier. For more information, please visit this link: Resurfaced Reviews. Lantana Rating Director Ray Lawrence Screenplay Andrew Bovell (Play: Andrew…
6. Lantana 2001, directed by Ray Lawrence | Film review - TimeOut
Sep 10, 2012 · LaPaglia is police detective Leon Zat. How's Zat? Glad you asked - he's trying to jog off a paunch; trying not to let a one-night stand with ...
LaPaglia is police detective Leon Zat. How's Zat? Glad you asked - he's trying to jog off a paunch; trying not to let a one-night stand with Jane (Blake) turn i
7. Lantana (2001) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Sommers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective ...
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Sommers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat and his partner Claudia attempt to solve the mystery of her absence. As they investigate, a complex web of love, sex and deceit...
8. Aussie cult hit Lantana, 20 years on: 'It will always be relevant'
Jul 7, 2021 · The film's insights were wrenching, key exchanges scything, and the direction was intimately exact, but along with the subsequent critical ...
With its story of crumbling relationships and star-studded cast, Lantana was a hit. Now, 20 years later, its creators reflect on the film’s enduring success.
9. Lantana (2001) directed by Ray Lawrence • Reviews, film + cast
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective ...
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.
10. LANTANA - Movieguide | Movie Reviews for Families
LANTANA is an Australian movie that uses the crime-story format to study four sets of married couples. Anthony LaPaglia plays police detective Leon Zat.
The lantana bush in Australia is a lovely plant, filled with exotic, beautiful flowers. Beneath this beauty, however, lies a thick thorny growth. The
11. Lantana (2001) - The Screen Guide
A woman disappears. Four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death. Not all of them survive. LANTANA is a psychological thriller ...
A woman disappears. Four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death. Not all of them survive. LANTANA is a psychological thriller about love. It's about the mistakes we make, the consequences we suffer, and the attempts we make to fix things up.
12. Lantana | Australia Explained
Jun 30, 2016 · Lantana has no respect for boundaries: it invades, entangles and takes over. Like distrust, screenwriter Andrew Bovell must have thought, or ...
According to the Australian Department of the Environment, lantana is a ‘weed of national significance’. Although it is very beautiful, with colourful flower...
13. A Life More Ordinary | Culture Snob
May 11, 2009 · Which brings us to Lantana's oddest bit: the anger of Nik's wife Paula after Jane has tidied up her house while she was visiting her husband at ...
Much to my surprise, I can find no reference to the nearly universal cinematic "wedding-ring rule": Any time a wedding ring is a prominent prop or visual motif in a movie, infidelity will be a central theme. The obverse: Any movie with infidelity as a central theme will feature the wedding ring as a prop or visual motif. I could offer dozens of examples, but the best might be Lantana, which is obviously about sexual straying but has a greater interest in marriage overall, especially the underlying, intertwined issues of trust and honesty. Although it's nearly too blunt in its themes, the movie feels continuously right, nailing not only relationship dynamics but interred grief and pain. Throughout, it gets the tone, nuance, and scale of life correct.
14. Lantana (2001) - MUBI
Synopsis. Detective Leon Zat moves through a dark labyrinth of human relationships on his journey to solve the mystery of a woman's disappearance. He discovers ...
Detective Leon Zat moves through a dark labyrinth of human relationships on his journey to solve the mystery of a woman’s disappearance. He discovers a dark underbelly of perplexing obsessions between four couples, which causes him to reflect back on his own marriage and what he has lost.
15. Classics Worth Re-Catching: Lantana (2001) - FilmInk
“Lantana is a love story and a mystery,” the film's director, Ray Lawrence, told FilmInk in 2001. “It's a mystery that we fall in love with somebody and stay ...
Classics Worth Re-Catching: Lantana (2001) -
16. Lantana Reviews - Metacritic
Summary This ensemble mystery set in Australia examines the stories of four married couples, each touched by the discovery of a murdered woman. Drama · Mystery.
This ensemble mystery set in Australia examines the stories of four married couples, each touched by the discovery of a murdered woman.
17. Lantana | Patrick Nabarro
Sep 27, 2013 · Lantana (2001) Director: Ray Lawrence Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Barbara Hershey Synopsis: The lives of an interconnected ...
Lantana (2001) Director: Ray Lawrence Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Barbara Hershey Synopsis: The lives of an interconnected group of Australians are brought into sharp focus when a th…
18. Movie Review – Lantana - PopCult Reviews
Jan 24, 2021 · Lantana (2001)Written by Andrew BovellDirected by Ray Lawrence Ray Lawrence took sixteen years off between his first and second films.
Lantana (2001)Written by Andrew BovellDirected by Ray Lawrence Ray Lawrence took sixteen years off between his first and second films. His career seems to coincide with the two peaks in internation…
19. Lantana (2001)Share - Australian Screen
Curator's clip description ... Upset by a patient, psychiatrist Dr Valerie Somers (Barbara Hershey) attacks a stranger in the street, imagining she heard a remark ...
Lantana is distinctly different to most contemporary Australian films: sparser, darker and more emotionally mysterious. (Video excerpt 1.58 minutesalso has educational notes. This clip chosen to be PG)
20. FILM REVIEW; Urban Lives Are Entangled, With Suspense in the Air
Dec 14, 2001 · At first glance, ''Lantana'' looks like a murder mystery. In the opening scene, the camera delves into the undergrowth until it comes upon the ...
Ray Lawrence's haunting film has the mood and structure of a murder mystery, but the secrets it explores are at once more pedestrian and more disturbing. Playing a Sydney police detective wracked by anger, frustration and guilt at cheating on his wife, Anthony LaPaglia is the volcanic center of a web of need, deceit and self-delusion. The film's view of marriage, and of contemporary urban life, is rigorously bleak, but it is acted and directed with such conviction and assurance that the experience of watching it is ultimately thrilling. – A. O. Scott
21. Review: Lantana - Slant Magazine
Dec 4, 2001 · Ray Lawrence's Lantana is a multi-character relationship saga disguised as a bubbling thriller. by Ed Gonzalez. December 4, 2001.
Ray Lawrence’s Lantana is a multi-character relationship saga disguised as a bubbling thriller.
