In Her Skin (2009)
Australian screenwriter, producer and director Simone North's feature film debut which she wrote, is based on a novel called "Perfect Victim" from 2003 by Australian writer Elisabeth Southall and UK journalist Megan Norris. It was screened at the Brisbane International Film Festival in 2010 and is an Australian production which was shot on location in Melbourne, Australia and produced by producer Tony Cavanaugh. It tells the story about Rachel Elizabeth Barber, a 15-year-old dancer from Melbourne who disappears on a spring day in 1999. Her father Mike and her mother Elizabeth contacts the local authorities, but as there is no evidence of something criminal having happened to Rachel no search is instigated by the police and Mike and Elizabeth has to begin investigating on their own to find their eldest child.
Subtly and intimately directed by Australian filmmaker Simone North, this finely paced fictional tale which is narrated by the female protagonist and from multiple viewpoints, draws a gripping portrayal of an Australian family and their strive to locate their missing teenage daughter. While notable for it's colorful milieu depictions, fine production design by Australian production designer Peta Lawson and cinematography by Australian cinematographer Jules O'Loughlin, this dialog-driven, narrative-driven and heartrending thriller-drama which examines humane and psychological themes, depicts a nuanced study of character and contains a great score by Australian composer Ben Frost which emphasizes it's lingering atmosphere.
This authentic and unsettling story which scrutinizingly describes the complex personality of a disturbed woman who is marred by her self-perception and conflicting relationship with her parents, and the hardships of a loving mother and father, is impelled and reinforced by it's cogent narrative structure, substantial character development, the fine acting performances by English-born Australian actor Guy Pearce, Australian actress Miranda Otto, New Zealand actor Sam Neill and the profound acting performance by Irish-Canadian actress Ruth Bradley. An incisive, empathic and lyrical directorial debut which is inspired by real events that took place in Melbourne, Australia in the late 20th century.
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"classic" film ... or, is it? 
where else does one go to post about movies? 
...though the emphasis is of course on what film archivists, preservationists, critics, and of course the people behind Turner Classic Movies (TCM) regard as classic, with a particular emphasis here at DU on the films of the 1930s and 1940s.
TCM is fairly broad in its sweep, including in its programming not only silent movies, selections from the entire array of legendary directors (Wilder, Capra, Ford, Hawks et al) but also international cinema. There are also serials, B-movies, shorts, and the like, and good or even great films from the past couple of decades, plus occasionally some choices that draw a real whiskey-tango-foxtrot reaction, at least from this DUer. I assume it's needing to fill all those hours, plus of course access to rights to screen a movie.
Getting back to the scope of the DU Classic Films Group, Australian cinema in general has been an occasional topic here.
For what it's worth, DU does have an Entertainment category and subsections, and besides that there's always the DU Lounge, though frankly I regard posting your topic there as an exercise in masochism. As someone pointed out to me years back, a thread entitled What Color Is Your Dog? can get a hundred responses, while a thoughtful post can sink like a stone.
