Ruislip & Eastcote & Northwood Gazette
THE PHOTOGRAPH
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JADED journalist Michael Block (Lakeith Stanfield) prepares to write a feature on photographer Christina Eames (Chante Adams).
He travels to Louisiana to interview her friend Isaac Jefferson (Rob Morgan), who barely conceals the depth of his true feelings for Christina and their shared history.
Michael gathers further background detail by meeting Christina’s estranged daughter Mae Morton (Issa Rae), who shares her mother’s love of art and works as a curator. The writer finds his integrity compromised by a burgeoning attraction to Mae.
As Michael wrestles with his feelings, he becomes personally invested in unravelling the doomed love story between Christina and young Isaac (played by Y’lan Noel).
The Photograph is a swooning romantic drama which unfolds in parallel time frames, juxtaposing Michael and Mae’s flirtations with heartbreak in 1980s Louisiana.
Love ripples across the decades in
STATELESS (Netflix)
THE turbulent lives of four strangers intersect at an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert in this six-part drama, created by Cate Blanchett, Tony Ayres and Elise McCredle.
Airline stewardess Sophie Werner (Yvonne Strahovski) stumbles into the clutches of a cult run by Pat (Blanchett). She escapes, but finds herself under unimaginable scrutiny from her own government.
Meanwhile, Afghan refugee Ameer (Fayssal Bazzi) suffers grievously at the hands of people smugglers.
At the detention centre, general manager Clare Kowitz (Asher Keddie) faces a trial by media over the treatment of detainees and new guard Cam Sandford (Jai Courtney) struggles to process the shocking things he witnesses on the inside.
■ Available from July 8.