The thing that made me want to see this film was the Sydney Film Festival blurb promising it would be equal parts humorous and melancholic, often in the same scene. On that level, it delivers. There are some hilarious moments in this, all of them dark and unexpected. And the performances are great, particularly moments that demand anger, grief, shame, loneliness, goofiness and desire all at once.

Ultimately, though, it is lacking the groundedness that i think it needs to…

It's not exactly relateable in Australia, because an 8 year old girl would not be left to her own devices by all the adults who have incidental with her but fail to help in any more meaningful way than to tell her the name of the street she is describing. But the concept of being lost and left to your own devices, of having your day go not at all as expected and realising you are in trouble, or…