Court of Lonely Royals

Holden and Hunter are alienated urban twenty-somethings who are hired killers for the cops in a near-future dystopia where murder is as common as cocaine, and is easily covered up. These assassins never touch their victims and instead use their weaknesses to manoeuvre them into self-destruction. They are joined by Charlie, a hooker who jumps at the chance to wreak vengeance on a world that has screwed her. And by Camille, an innocent cast adrift in a foreign city, who is hoping to find security in Holden’s love. The paths of these four lost souls intersect in violence. This low-budget, renegade debut by Adelaide-born Rohan Michael Hoole, invokes the influences of Brett Easton Ellis and Wong Kar-wai in its sense of urban defiance, neon-lit violence, and melancholy. There’s a host of edgy young talent on display here from Damon Gameau ( The Tracker, Thunderstruck) in the lead role to the original score by The Midnight Juggernauts.

Hopefully, this marks the beginning of a new trend in Australia: filmmakers with something to say, and the talent to say it.

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