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[off-topic]Cheers, Ag. Up the mighty Eels! Can't remember the last time Parra had a real chance...[/off-topic]
Mmm. Mullet sounds interesting. Will keep an eye out. I should, at this point, throw Idiot Box into the mix, too, given that you mentioned it - ostensibly a comedy, but has some quite poignant scenes of a fuck-up trying to get it right. (And the soundtrack's got some lovely stuff on it, too.) Jeremy Sims being not too obnoxious, for once. Watch it, if only to see Ben Mendelssohn in action - and to suddenly realise that it's he who the writerly type in The Secret Life Of Us is trying to be...
There's some luscious camerawork in Praise, the filmed version of the McGahan novel. Soundtrack's good, too - but being assembled by Dirty Three, I would say that. Unfortunately, though the film's kinda let down by the phoned-in performance of Peter Fenton. Sacha Horler, however, is brilliant as the bugfuck, skinrashed nymphomaniacal female lead. (Does she still work at Berkelouw on Oxford St?) That, and Tex Perkins getting the shit kicked out of him... a diverting afternoon's entertainment, let me tell yer.
Another Aussie film that's worth a look: In The Winter Dark, an adaptation of the Tim Winton novel. Don't know how to describe it, actually - there's intimations of the supernatural, and an almost Lynchean stillness to some of the settings. Middle-aged loss and Jim Reeves tunes in a rural setting; it's quite affecting, surprisingly so.
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