Solitude in Blue

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MELITA ROWSTON
 

"He must have carried her here in his arms. As if he were putting a child to bed."

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Melbourne 1930.
A murderer is lurking the streets. The strangled bodies of young girls are piling up in the laneways of suburbia, casting a shadow over the sun-bleached days of summer.

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In the heat of the city, Molly Dean barges into painter Colin Colahan’s life and seduces him with her words. She is determined to leave behind her dingy suburban roots and become a ‘bohemian’ writer. Colin is enchanted by this fiery creature who drags him away from his elite artistic circle and forces him to paint with his heart instead of his head.



Molly is struggling to find a subject for her book until she stumbles on a crime scene. As the murders escalate, she follows a trail of blood to each site. She breathes life into the ghosts of the victims, tastes the last words on their breath and fixates on their silencing. Propelled by her macabre thoughts, Colin and Molly’s lives are forever changed. Their difference brought them together and ultimately will tear them apart.

 

Based on a handful of faded newspaper cuttings, Solitude in Blue paints a unique portrait of two people struggling to find themselves and their artistic voices. In Mol, Colin finds the spark he has lost, In Col, Molly finds the key to her dreams. In each other they find obsession, anger and finally despair.