Jessica Henwick and Julia Garner in Kitty Green's 'The Royal Hotel' (Image: Transmission Films)

Pub test: Kitty Green sinks her teeth into Aussie drinking culture for ‘The Royal Hotel’

In 2017, Kitty Green first saw Peter Gleeson’s documentary Hotel Coolgardie while part of a jury for an Australian film festival.

She would watch it one more time and then start writing.

Gleeson’s film about two young Scandinavian women trapped in an Australian mining town laid the groundwork for Green’s second feature The Royal Hotel, filmed on location in South Australia last year.

The social thriller stars Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick as Hanna and Liv, two US backpac...