Life Could Be a Dream review – a powerful, polished Australian film about domestic abuse (opens in new tab)

Director Jasmin Tarasin weaves richly layered moments between mother and son – and darker flashbacks to what they left behindThere’s something instantly unsettling about seeing a fully dressed person underwater – a visual motif perhaps most memorably deployed in The Piano, with Holly Hunter pulled into the ocean in full Victorian garb.The domestic abuse-themed Australian drama Life Could Be a Dream opens with a similarly haunting vision: a woman in a white dress suspended beneath the surface,...