Breathing Under Water

Name: Breathing Under Water
Director: Susan Murphy Dermody
Released: 1993-05-15
Duration: 1 h 18 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Anne-Louise Lambert, Maeve Dermody, Kristoffer Greaves, Gillian Jones, David Argue

1993

1h 18m

Director: Susan Murphy Dermody

Writer: Susan Murphy Dermody

Overview

BREATHING UNDER WATER is the story of a woman's journey into an imaginary underworld city. The birth of her daughter into an increasingly perilous world has unsettled everything in Beatrice's (Anne Louise Lambert) life. Her growing unease prompts Beatrice to undertake a journey - an investigation into human nature, a confrontation with the fears of our time, and a search for clues that will ultimately give her an answer to the central riddle of the film: why has humankind set the stage for its own extinction? The director’s preoccupation with humankind’s tendency to self-destruct was one factor that lead to the creation of this complex film.