Directed by: Ray Lawrence
Staring: Geoffrey Rush, Barbara Hershey, Anthony La Paglia
Lantana is one of those movies that stays with you hours after you’,ve seen it. Made in 2001 this Australian film is about relationships and intersecting lives. Detective Leon Zat is having an affair. His wife is going to a psychiatrist. This psychiatrist has suffered her own emotional upheaval. In spite of her training, she is judgmental about extramarital affairs and the subject of trust.
Add to this mix a happily married couple with three small children who live next door to the woman the detective has romanced, a female cop who is full of good advice, and several other characters who are looking for emotional connection and we have an interesting plot about how paths cross and how we are all connected. And then one of the women disappears and murder is suspected. It is this murder investigation that touches each of these peoples lives.