Thursday, 25 April 2019

The Viewing Files: 365 Movies in 365 Days - Week Forty Two

Sam is the man in this week's viewing in all his glorious scruffiness.  There's a handful of Aussies in there as well but they don't really count.

There's also plenty of humour and some great music.

Death In Brunswick
Starring: Sam Neill
Original release: 1990
Synopsis:
Carl just can't seem to get a break - his rent is way overdue, his mum has moved in with him and just when he thinks he is about to turn his life around he accidentally kills someone and now has a body on his hands.


I am so there for a scruffy looking, leather jacket wearing Sam Neill who sings Split Enz songs. 

Delightfully quirky and funny.
Strictly Ballroom
Starring: Dancing Aussies
Original release: 1992
Synopsis:
A dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner. 

Bitchy people being bitchy, a 'plain' girl loses the glasses and sparkles everywhere.

Yep it's ballroom dancing Oz style.

It kind of works what with the dancing and romance and music but man I hate that song.
The Sapphires
Starring: Singing Aussies and a Irishman
Original release: 2012
Synopsis:
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam. 

I could just listen to them singing all day long.
Sweet Country
Starring: Sam Neill
Original release: 2017
Synopsis:
An aboriginal man and his wife go on the run after he kills a white man in self defense.


Stories like this need to be told.
Oranges and Sunshine
Starring: The actress who always looks sad
Original release: 2010
Synopsis:
A social worker stumbles into one of the biggest secrets of the British government.


The things that countries and governments do all for the 'greater good'.

This movie will shock you and appall you.  As it should.
The Dish
Starring: Sam Neill
Original release: 2000
Synopsis:
A remote Australian community plays a key role in the first Apollo moon landing. 

Totally Aussie in every way.  Which is completely part of it's charm.

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