7.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Lantana (2001)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.8
Overview
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral
Trans: Neutral
Overview
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film explores the complex web of human relationships, infidelity, and the breakdown of communication without advocating for any particular political ideology. Its focus on universal themes of trust, betrayal, and the search for connection renders it apolitical.
The movie features a predominantly white Australian cast, consistent with traditional casting practices and without intentional race or gender swaps. Its narrative explores complex human relationships and infidelity, maintaining a neutral to positive portrayal of traditional identities without explicitly focusing on DEI themes.
Secondary
Lantana features a significant subplot involving a married man's secret affair with a male prostitute. This queer relationship is central to the marital conflict and mystery, but the film maintains a neutral stance on queer identity itself. It explores the complexities of human relationships, secrecy, and infidelity, portraying characters with nuance rather than affirming or denigrating their sexual orientation.
Lantana features a transsexual character, Valerie, whose identity is revealed during a murder investigation. The film portrays her as a complex individual caught in difficult circumstances. While some characters react with initial discomfort, the narrative itself neither affirms nor denigrates her trans identity, maintaining a largely observational stance.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Lantana" is an adaptation of the play "Speaking in Tongues." The genders of all major characters in the film remain consistent with their original portrayals in the source play, with no instances of a character's established gender being changed.
The film "Lantana" is an adaptation of the play "Speaking in Tongues." Character races were not explicitly defined in the source material, and there is no evidence of any character being widely established as one race and then portrayed as another in the film adaptation.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.2
6.7
Critic Ratings
9.0
8.4
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