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Director: Richard Lowenstein
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From Time Out Film Guide
A squat in Melbourne, 1978: discernible among the roaches, mouldering cans of beans, Eno albums and the odd sheep, are the truly terrible punk band Dogs in Space, a gaggle of hippies, students and nurses, and sundry visitors including a chainsaw fanatic and two strangely amiable cops. Into this seething heap drifts the Girl, a taciturn waif whose perceptions of the house's giggling, garrulous grotesques form the narrative springboard for Lowenstein's admirably adventurous film. No mere rock movie, it is a remarkably rich portrait both of a much-maligned subculture and of the end of an era: story, for the most part, is held at bay, with the vividly realised fragments as apparently chaotic yet as tautly structured as Nashville. Lowenstein generously but unsentimentally allows his initially irritating, immature characters to become interesting and sympathetic. A funny, elegiac, uplifting, and deliciously different movie.Author: GA
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- nightcat said...
- Posted on Apr 12 2008 13:29 I love this film and cannot understand why it has not been released properly onto DVD. From all reports the one that is currenly available is worse than video quality. PLEASE can someone release this properly - it's a classic Australian film!
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Cast & crew
Director: Richard Lowenstein
Producer: Glenys Rowe
Cast: Michael Hutchence, Saskia Post, Nique Needles, Deanna Bond, Tony Helou, Chris Haywood, Peter Walsh full cast
Duration: 109 mins
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