Kirsten Law
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Set in 1989, Catalin Mitulescu’s The Way I Spent the End of the World is the story of Eva, a pert 17-year-old struggling with the usual trials of adolescence during the last days of Romania’s oppressive Communist regime. When Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a statue of the dictator Ceausescu, she is sent to reform school and meets the rebellious Andrei. Together they hatch a plan to flee Romania by swimming across the Danube. Meanwhile Lalalilu, Eva’s seven-year-old brother who has a near-romantic devotion to his sister, is devastated …
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When comedian Cal Wilson moved to Melbourne the thing that struck her about the city was not the erratic weather or the abundance of black clothing, but rather, our peculiar fondness for Australian Rules football. ‘The thing I found really funny when I first got here is that everyone said, ‘Oh you’ve got to choose a team,” the Melbourne International Comedy Festival veteran tells. ‘Even if you don’t really like footy, you’ve still got a team you barrack for ’cause it saves time.’
Two years later, the New Zealand-grown TV regular …
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