Lantana

The intertwined lives of four couples living in and around Sydney, Australia, form the structure for this drama masquerading as a whodunit. Andrew Bovell freely adapted his play, +Speaking in Tongues, opening up the action, as the geography and topography of Sydney and its suburbs become major ...more

The degrees of separation among the eight principal characters in Lantana usually boil down to one, though they are drawn from an economically and socially diverse cross section of Sydney, Australia. Films that begin with a shot of a corpse usually require a resourceful detective to figure out "whodunit," but in this case, the detective Leon Zat is a man cheating on his wife, drinking too hard, and all too easily suspicious of the dead person's spouse. But Lantana is really not a mystery, though ...more