An Australian film, The Well, screened at the Cannes Festival last year, will be shown in Hong Kong next month.
A first work by new director Samantha Lang, it is a stark tale about two women whose friendship develops into a nightmare.
The movie is given a haunting, Gothic edge by being set in the bush around Sydney.
'We're going to show the film as part of a special five-film Valentine's Day package,' said Panasia general manager Winnie Tsang. 'We will give it a wider release later. I liked the film a lot at Cannes - it's very mysterious.' The Well is about 'how the need for love can corrupt you', says 29-year-old Lang, who directed the movie only 18 months after leaving film school.
'It's a very odd film - it's ambiguous and mysterious, as well as being a psychological drama.' The story is based on a novel by Elizabeth Jolly. Lang was intrigued by the book's premise that 'a great hunger for love can turn bad when it becomes corrupted by greed and possession'.
The Well begins with a lonely, sexually repressed female farmer hiring a young woman, Katherine, as a servant.
