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" Animal Kingdom, the movie that won the World Cinema Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, is about family \u2014 a family of lowlife criminals, specifically, and the police who investigate them. But it&amp;#039;s really about the primal forces that hold families together and the broken promises that rip them apart. It&amp;#039;s dark and disturbing and gritty in a very good way. You should see it. It&amp;#039;s in theaters now.  Blue-Tongue Films, the Australian film collective behind Animal Kingdom, is kind of about family, too, and not just because two of its principals, Joel and Nash Edgerton, are brothers. Members of the group, which also includes David Mich\u00F4d, Spencer Susser, Luke Doolan, and Kieran Darcy-Smith, have spent the past decade mastering their individual trades \u2014 one&amp;#039;s a stunt double, another&amp;#039;s a film editor, and so forth \u2014 while also making films together about loners, losers, criminals, and all-around bad seeds. &amp;quot;We were just a bunch of guys who started in the kiddie pool,&amp;quot; says Mich\u00F4d, who wrote and directed Animal Kingdom, of their early days in Sydney&amp;#039;s small film community. &amp;quot;We had all demonstrated some skill or potential but hadn&amp;#039;t yet worked out what to do with it, and there was something comforting for all of us, I think, about being able to provide emotional and practical support for each other. That was the early glue that bound us together.&amp;quot; (See? Family. Kind of.) They began developing ideas in their spare time and eventually started collaborating on full-length films (The Magician,The Square, Hesher) and shorts (Miracle Fish, written, directed, and edited by Doolan under the Blue-Tongue banner, was nominated for an Oscar for best live-action short earlier this year) with different members wearing different hats (writing, directing, acting, et al.) at different times. Here, for instance, Mich\u00F4d, Susser, and the brothers Edgerton (along with Ben Mendelsohn, a star of Animal Kingdom) are hanging around a California junkyard, no doubt contemplating the Blue-Tongue gang&amp;#039;s next move. Doolan and Darcy-Smith, meanwhile, are back in Australia, holding down the fort and dreaming up some fresh hell of their own. Darker days (or story lines, anyway) are ahead.  David Mich\u00F4d, 37 Writes, directs Leather jacket ($2,175) and wool sweater ($725) by Dolce &amp;amp;amp; Gabbana; cotton jeans ($98) by J. Crew.  Spencer Susser, 34 Writes, directs, produces Leather jacket ($4,795) by Versace; cotton shirt ($265) by Richard Chai; cotton jeans ($70) by Levi&amp;#039;s; leather boots ($325) by Wolverine.  Ben Mendelsohn, 41 Acts Leather jacket ($1,195) and cotton-and-alpaca henley ($98) by Polo Ralph Lauren; cotton jeans ($145) by Boss Orange; leather boots ($825) by Dolce &amp;amp;amp; Gabbana.  Joel Edgerton, 36 Writes, acts, produces Wool coat ($1,180) by Prada; rayon-and-polyester shirt ($221) by Nicholas K.; cotton jeans ($170) by Diesel.  Nash Edgerton, 37 Writes, directs, acts, stunt-doubles (see: The Matrix) Hooded leather jacket ($1,895) and wool sweater ($345) by Armani Collezioni; cotton jeans ($174) by 7 for All Mankind; leather boots ($825) by Dolce &amp;amp;amp; Gabbana. Originally published in the new October issue \u2014 check it out now for more fall fashion coverage "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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