My Favourite Movies 2016 – A Reflection by Carolyn McDowall

In talking about the arts with a friend once, he reminded me that ‘… just as a palate can be educated to appreciate fine wine so too can both the eye and the ear be educated to distinguish the rare from the ordinary, the exquisite from the mundane’* So it is also with any visual and performance art forms.
Discussing my favourite movies released in Australia in 2016, I should point out that they don’t necessarily fit into international award seasons. I thought it best to