I’m less interested in the sweeping shots of Bondi beach or the Sydney Opera House than I am in the sights that feel everyday
There’s a scene in the new movie Babyteeth that was filmed at one of my favourite restaurants. When it came on screen in the cinema, I tapped my friend on the shoulder and whispered, “That’s Ron’s Upstairs!” – proud to have recognised its wood-panelled walls and twisting plastic grapevines.
Babyteeth is full of familiar sights. It was filmed in the middle of a Sydney summer to a backdrop of deja vu-inducing streets, skylines and drinking holes. I spent a lot of the movie either straining to read the name of a train station blurred in the background or trying to figure out which suburb the spectacularly bougie family home at the centre of the film might be in (wherever it is, I would like to live there). Babyteeth was wonderful in its own right but I especially enjoyed it because it let me play my favourite game: Sydney spotting.
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