52 Films by Women Vol 8. 46. Audrey (Director: Natalie Bailey)
Pictured : Playing the disability card, actress-turned-stage mother Ronnie Collins ( Jackie Van Beek ) in a scene from the Australian comedy, ' Audrey ', written by Lou Sanz and directed by Natalie Bailey . Still courtesy of London Film Festival (UK) / Rialto Film Distribution (Australia) Former actress Ronnie Collins ( Jackie Van Beek ) is a force of nurture. Embracing smotherhood, the parent of the title character in the Queensland-set comedy, Audrey , wants her eighteen-year-old daughter to equal her achievement. Audrey ( Josephine Blazier ) would rather go to Nepal with her boyfriend, Max ( Fraser Anderso n) to build houses and surf, taking advantage of everything her ‘white privilege has to offer’. She doesn’t appreciate that mum has enrolled her in an acting class given by a legendary stage director, Lucinda ( Gael Ballantyne ) who stunned everyone with ‘her all male version of the Vagina Monologues’. Meanwhile, Ronnie’s younger daughter, Norah ( Hannah Diviney ), wh...