Concealed (film)

2017 film

Concealed

Directed by| Shane T. Hall
Written by| Shane T. Hall
Produced by| Jacqui Fifer
Lyall Sumner
Jo McNulty
Starring| Simon Lyndon
Paul Tassone
Joanne Priest
Yalin Ozucelik
Nadia Townsend
Cinematography| Oliver Lawrance
Edited by| Eleanor Infante
Music by| Simon Whiteside

Release date

* 2017 (2017)

Running time

| 86 minutes
Country| Australia
Language| English

Concealed is a 2017 Australian thriller film written and directed by Shane T. Hall.

## Plot

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Max returns home to Australia to find his girlfriend has gone missing.

## Cast

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* Simon Lyndon as Max
* Paul Tassone as Richard
* Joanne Priest as Jacky
* Yalin Ozucelik as Perry
* Nadia Townsend as Sallie
* Anthony Phelan as Joe
* Denise Roberts as Irene

## Reception

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Leslie Felperin of the Guardian gave it 2 stars, writing "Sadly, it’s more of a mud pie of contemporary thriller tropes that don’t hold together for long."[1] The Times's Kevin Maher's 2 star review was subtitled "This foolhardy film never feels like anything other than kitschy ‘let’s pretend’"[2] Anton Bitel wrote in RealCrime Magazine "Accordingly, as this hybrid film, all at once fish-out-of-water thriller and domestic tragedy, constantly switches between these two modes, it generates considerable ambiguity, even mystery from its own mismatched, dysfunctional plotting – with everything hidden in plain sight".[3]

## References

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1. ^ Felperin, Leslie (31 May 2018), "Concealed review – Matlock-style thriller can't meet its Ibsen ambitions", The Guardian
2. ^ Maher, Kevin (1 June 2018), "Film review: Concealed", The Times
3. ^ Bitel, Anton (5 February 2019), "Concealed (2017)", RealCrime Magazine

## External links

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* Concealed at IMDb
* ConcealedTheMovie.com