The Waiting City

2010 • 103 minutes

About this movie

Directed by Australian rising talent Claire McCarthy, The Waiting City tells the story of an outwardly happy Australian couple who journey to India to collect their adopted baby. When they arrive in Kolkata they discover that the adoption arrangements have still to be finalised. Soon the intoxicating mystic power of the city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself. The first Australian feature film to be shot entirely in India, The Waiting City is an intimate, complex love story of transformation, set against the exhilarating epic backdrop of Kolkata, starring Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton. 2009 Screen Australia, Waiting City Films Pty Ltd, Spectrum Films Pty Ltd , Radha Mitchell and the New South Wales Film and Television Office

Ratings and reviews

A beautiful journey that you ride along with.