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Millie Lies Low

Sandy Lane Productions

Lie Low Limited

New Zealand

English

Ana Scotney

Cohen Holloway

Chris Alosio

Alice May Connolly

Sam Cotton

Jillian Nguyen

Rachel House

Erin Banks

Joe Gordon

Ariaana Osborne

Olivia Parker

Jack Sergent-Shadbolt

Gabe Wright

Ram al Laham

Karen O'Leary

Taofi Mose-Nehemia

Paul Yates

Conor Cameron

Louis Littlejohn

Tina Cleary

Kate McGill

Rob MacBride

Raywen Rose

Michelle Savill

Eli Kent

Desray Armstrong

Angela Littlejohn

Andrew Stroud

Dan Kircher

Heather Hayward

Kelly Rogers

James Hayday

Gabrielle Stevenson

Sara Beale

Catherine Maguire

Evelyn Ida Morris

Nicola Ollsen

Lucy Burns

Paul Jackson

Tony Simpson

Harriet Guy

Michael Paletta

Andreas Mahn

Sevrin Noakes

Mason Rudd

Matt Kofoed

Alex Mckenna

Elyse Phee

Joel Anscombe-Smith

Jessy McNamara

Frankie Berge

Aimee Cooki Martin

Gabby Seagar

Carmel Rowden

Pita Mei

Jenny Sauvao

Daisy Marcuzzi

Margi Drodrolagi

Sally Gray

David Goldthorpe

Dylan Gullery

Estelle Stroud

Meredith Dodley

Leanne Hoare

Susan Durno

Serena Parsons

Jessica Inkpen

James Dunlop

Gareth Van Niekerk

Steve Finnigan

Richard Wills

Narelle Ahrens

Andrew Thorne

Sarah Ryan

Aislinn Pradella-Hallinan

Corey Le Vaillant

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This was just all too contrived for me. “Millie” (Ana Scotney) is about to fly from Wellington to a new life in New York when she has a panic attack on the aircraft. Terrified and unable to breathe, she gets off the thing but rather than tell her folks and friends that she had a turn, she proceeds to pretend that she has actually arrived. To that end, she hits social media with chats and photographs whilst all the while hovering around her home neighbourhood without a cent to her name. Desperate, she is swiftly reduced to petty theft and living in a tent before she is recognised by someone and her lies start to spiral into something altogether more ridiculous. Scotney actually does fine here, but the story goes nowhere fast and after the initial quirkiness of the start, this just resembles a script-writers convention where they all got together and created a series of scenarios that could have come straight from a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon - only these are not particularly funny. What I did find interesting was the extent to which characters obsess about living their lives online. Most of her predicaments here are entirely due to “Millie” being incapable of stopping lying and constantly making matters worse by laying a false trail of breadcrumbs. Who cares? She comes across as a fairly selfish and uninteresting woman right from the get-go, and any attempts to get to the bottom of her anxieties are well and truly subsumed in a “badass” sea of mediocre predictability. Maybe it might work better on a big screen with an audience full of beer and good will, but otherwise it’s pretty disappointing.

Millie Lies Low (2021) | Trailer | Michelle Savill

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Millie Lies Low | Clip | Berlinale 2022

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