The ACT’s first Capital Film Festival will conclude on a heartfelt note, with a debut feature film written and directed by Puberty Blues star, Tyler Atkins.
Bosch & Rockit (15+) is a coming-of-age drama, with the occasional side-splitting laugh, that follows Luke Hemsworth’s Bosch, a father on the run from crooked cops for drug dealing.
Tagging along with his dad for what he believes is a magical holiday is his young son, Rockit.
The film will screen at the festival on Sunday 26 June 7.30pm.
At first, Bosch & Rockit is a story about a father trying to raise his young son in the aftermath of losing everything. Bosch tries to protect Rockit from the world through flights of fancy, often spun while running from the cops.
It’s also a love letter to the picturesque East Australian coast. Atkins’ love of the surf is portrayed through cinematography that almost has you smelling the unmistakable blue waves, surfer hotels, and fish and chips doused with chicken salt.
Fresh-faced newcomers Rasmus King (Rockit) and Savannah La Rain (Ash Ash) are phenomenal for their tender age. Rockit’s age is never specified, the actor never physically changes, and yet you’re acutely aware of watching him grow.
*Spoiler alert* You can pinpoint the first time Rockit tells a lie, coming off his surfboard not long after, signalling the end of a happy-go-lucky childhood. By the end of the movie, Rockets surpasses both his parents and takes over Bosch as the main character.
He gradually loses signs of the naïve, no-filter kid we meet at the beginning of the film, but never cuts his long golden hair, representing his pure heart and ability to forgive that ultimately lends his dad a second chance at life.
Verdict: 4 stars.
Viewed at Dendy Cinemas Canberra
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