BRUCE BERESFORD

LADIES IN BLACK (2018)
Starring Julia Ormond, Angourie Rice, Rachael Taylor, Alison McGirr, Vincent Perez, Ryan Corr, Susie Porter, Shane Jacobson, Noni Hazlehurst and Nicholas Hammond. Directed by Bruce Beresford.

Set in the summer of 1959, when the impact of European migration and the rise of women’s liberation is about to change Australia forever, a shy schoolgirl, Lisa, takes a summer job at the grand city department store, Goode’s, while awaiting the results of her final exams. There she meets the “ladies in black” – the glamorous Goode’s employees. Beguiled and influenced by Magda, the vivacious manager of the high-fashion floor, and befriended by fellow sales ladies Patty & Fay, Lisa grows from a bookish girl to a glamorous and positive young woman, and she herself becomes a catalyst for a cultural change in everyone’s lives.

REVIEWS Ladies In Black - It doesn't have the "Goodes"

LADIES IN BLACK (2018)
Starring Julia Ormond, Angourie Rice, Rachael Taylor, Alison McGirr, Vincent Perez, Ryan Corr, Susie Porter, Shane Jacobson, Noni Hazlehurst and Nicholas Hammond. Directed by Bruce Beresford.

Set in the summer of 1959, when the impact of European migration and the rise of women’s liberation is about to change Australia forever, a shy schoolgirl, Lisa, takes a summer job at the grand city department store, Goode’s, while awaiting the results of her final exams. There she meets the “ladies in black” – the glamorous Goode’s employees. Beguiled and influenced by Magda, the vivacious manager of the high-fashion floor, and befriended by fellow sales ladies Patty & Fay, Lisa grows from a bookish girl to a glamorous and positive young woman, and she herself becomes a catalyst for a cultural change in everyone’s lives.

REVIEWS Ladies In Black - It doesn't have the "Goodes"