Shed Your Tears and Walk Away
What do you do when your friends have lost their survival instinct?
Real-life drama about why, in a beautiful and quirky rural town, film- maker Jez Lewis' childhood friends are killing themselves. Beginning with a personal quest for understanding, the film moves into a year-long drama of human tragedy and redemption as principal character Cass comes to terms with his own mortality and attempts to lift himself out of his cycle of self-destruction. This core narrative carves an upward arc through an intimate study of a place often described as paradise, but which harbours an undertow of lethal hedonism and disillusionment. As people continue to kill themselves during the making of the film, a maelstrom of conflicting values throws up unexpected truths about the human condition.
Directed by Jez Lewis
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Make it a double feature
3h 13m together
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away
Free Party: A Folk History
Both from Jez Lewis.
