Spoiler Scale (How spoilery is this article on a scale of 1 to 10?): 4 For her second feature film (Australia’s submission to the 85th Annual Academy Awards in the Best Foreign-Language Picture category), co-writer/director Cate Shortland (Somersault (2004)) adapts Rachel Seiffert’s critically-acclaimed novel, The Dark Room (2001), which contemplates the effect of the fall if the Nazis upon individual Germans. In extracting only one of Seiffert’s three narratives, Shortland opts for a vantage point that ... Read More »