Last Breakfast in Paradise

Last Breakfast in Paradise is a 1982 Australian short film created by Meg Stewart. It tell the story of the last period of a love affair.^[2] It was the first fiction film by Stewart who shot the film over two weeks.^[1] It won the Fiction award Greater Union Awards in 1982.^[3]

Last Breakfast in Paradise
Directed by	Meg Stewart
Written by	Meg Stewart
Produced by	Richard Brennan
Starring	Penne Hackforth-Jones John Hargreaves
Cinematography	David Sanderson
Edited by	Henry Dangar
Music by	Sharon Calcraft
Release date	1982 (1982)
Running time	45 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	$52,000[1]

Anna-Maria Dell'oso, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, called it "Short, sweet and scathing". She writes "Swift, witty and poignant, Last Breakfast In Paradise emerges as an intimate chamber piece against the big loud symphonies of the two-hour-plus feature films." ^[4]

In 1985 it was showcased on The Cutting Room where the Age's Judith Fox called it "a densely-written, theatrically-structured film about the end of a relationship in which language is used to maintain emotional distance."^[5] Barbara Hooks of the Age writes "Meg Stewarts script is at once studied and throwaway, penetrating and obscure, wryly amusing and sad. Language is the couple's chosen weaponry. This is dialogue at 10 paces. An interesting, if rather theatrical, observation of a romance in ruins."^[6] Richard Coleman in the Sydney Morning Herald said it "was a boy-leaves-girl story enshrouded in a lot of bad dialogue" and that the best parts of the film was the performance of the lead actors.^[7]

Cast

• Penne Hackforth-Jones as Angela Jones
• John Hargreaves as Stephen Smith