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Bookmark this pageThe Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Director: John Duigan
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From Time Out Film Guide
A film to restore one's faith in films about the transition from adolescence to adulthood. It's 1962 in the Australian backwater town where callow teenager Danny (Taylor) has grown up with the slightly older Freya (Carmen), an orphan child with a murky past who feels like an outsider. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is showing at the Astor, The Shadows strum 'Apache' on the radio, and car-stealing delinquent Trevor (Mendelsohn) fancies himself as the local rebel without a cause. Using telepathy, 'force fields', and hypnosis, Danny tries to win Freya's love, but the bad boy hunk aims lower and scores... So sure is writer/director Duigan's feel for the characters, the period, and the prevailing moral climate, that the faintly supernatural elements are effortlessly integrated: as the mystery surrounding the local 'haunted house' unfolds, there is an uncanny sense of a scandalous episode in the community's history repeating itself. A lovingly crafted and deeply affecting film, this might be likened, in terms of both quality and perception, to Rob Reiner's excellent Stand By Me.Author: NF
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Posted on Apr 22 2009 12:42
this film is very moving and original. and i dont think ive ever seen any other film quite like it. sure, the displays of public urination and sexual acts can be quite rank, but it really helps people understand just what life was like back in the 50's in NSW, australia.
from the social scale to the strains of their sexual wants and needs, this movie has it all and really gets down into the nitty-gritty of this country town. - Report as inappropriate
Cast & crew
Director: John Duigan
Producer: Terry Hayes, Doug Mitchell, George Miller
Cast: Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell, Lynette Curran, Malcolm Robertson, Bruce Spence full cast
Duration: 105 mins
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