Author: OutInCanberra

The perfect remedy for illness – just lift your petticoats ladies!

For the wife of eminent scientist and inventor Dr Givings, the vagaries of the medical field have never held much allure. Until now.

Unable to breastfeed her baby and desperately lonely, Mrs Givings seeks companionship in two of her husband’s patients-and soon discovers the truth of what goes on at his practice.

What exactly is the revolutionary treatment he administers to females suffering from hysterical disorders? And why is his important medical invention called The Chattanooga Vibrator?

The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF), an annual Melbourne-based event will be arriving again in Canberra, from the 26th to the 29th of May at the National Film and Sound Archives.

Internationally acclaimed films Hands Up (2010), 12th and Delaware (2010), Enemies of the People (2009) and War Don Don (2010) will play at the National Film and Sound Archive.

Guillaume Canet has assembled an outstanding cast of some of France’s finest actors – headed by Academy Award-winning Marion Cotillard – to make Little White Lies; an entertaining and acutely observed drama of manners.

A group gathering is hosted every year by a couple at their beautiful beach house where they kick-off their summer vacation by celebrating the birthday of one of the gang. Fun, fine wine and seafood mix with sun and sand as they all leave their city stresses and inhibitions behind.