“…The cast delivers admirable performances. As McHeath, Hugo Weaving is a menacing mumbler; Rose Byrne’s beautiful melancholia perfectly suits Iris, and Matt Le Nevez is solid and likeable as Art, as is Luke Carroll as his Aboriginal sparring partner…”
More on The Sydney Morning Herald’s review here.
Dead charming
Directed by New Zealand-born Jonathan Ogilvie, The Tender Hook is a love-triangle drama set in the boxing underworld of a stylised 1920s Sydney, the jazz age. It follows the story of Iris (Rose Byrne), a beautiful and wily opportunist who is mistress to McHeath (Hugo Weaving), a shady businessman from England who dabbles in boxing promotion and fancies himself a cabaret singer.
More on the Brisbane Time’s review here.
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