Modern slavery and people smuggling form backdrop to South-East Asia-set Australian film

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In Australian filmmaker Rodd Rathjen's harrowing thriller Buoyancy, a 14-year-old Cambodian boy is kidnapped and forced into labour on a Thai fishing trawler.

Both the sun-scorched sea and the cramped, monochrome interiors are captured with evocative light by cinematographer Michael Latham, who shot both the otherworldly tones of Alena Lodkina's outback-set Strange Colours and the hyperreal intensity of Kitty Green's Casting JonBenet — two of the best Australian-directed films of recent years.

He gives Buoyancy the burnished look of a picturesque boys' own adventure about to go awry — which it very quickly does. Performed with menacing gusto by Kasro, Rom Ram is the kind of bad guy who isn't afraid to shock a tired worker with a cattle prod and tip him into the water, toss another would-be escapee overboard with a weight around his ankle, or tether another mutinous crew member to a grisly sea version of the human rack — like some terrifying, low-rent Bond villain.

By contrast, former street kid and first-time performer Heng has the kind of expressive stillness necessary to take all these horrors in, and Rathjen holds on Chakra's alternate disgust and seduction as he searches for a means of survival.

 

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