"Canberra News, Views and Opinion"
[First filed: May 27, 2009 @ 09:47]
It might have been too strong for the Australian Film Commission but local film makers have finished their work “The Dinner Party” and it’s hitting the big screen this weekend at the Hunter Valley’s Dungog Film Festival.
This from the blurb:
THE DINNER PARTY is an independent Australian feature film made by filmmakers who love cinema that confronts and challenges. Influenced by the filmmakers that brought us REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, FESTEN, BULLY and MEAN CREEK. This film is an emotional roller coaster that only loosens its grip on you when the blood drains and the credits roll…..
Hopefully we’ll get a local screening soon.
And thanks to sambahdi here’s the trailer:
UPDATE: And in big news the film has been accepted into competition at the UK’s prestigious Raindance Film Festival. Congratulations all round!
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Is this the one touted earlier as being based on Joe Cinque?
Good to see the Mandalay food bus as proof that this is local.
Hey! Isn’t that the dude from the Magnet Mart commercials?!
wow that has been in post production for ages, glad to see it finally released.
I for one are looking forward to seeing it.
congrats brendan.
there’s a youtube clip up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaAJYGqkThM
and there’ll be a segment on stateline on friday about it.
brendan you should be paying me a pr fee!
I’d really like to see that- Joe Cinque’s Consolation is a very powerful read and has stuck with me for years.
I got to see a rough cut of this a while back, and I think the boys will do us (Canberra) proud at Dungog. The film has some nice performances and great visuals.
The only thing that didn’t really thrill me is that I found it to be unrelentingly bleak. Not surprising, of course, given the subject matter. And that sort of thing usually does well on the festival circuit
timgee2007 said :
Yes it is
Hosts planning to kill “themselves”? Not “Anu Singh and a bunch of law students, now law pracitioners, laughing about plans to murder Joe Cinque”? This would have to be that weasel apologist for Anu Singh, Ricketson, at work. All failure to him.
Dungog is near Phillip Adams’s bolthole – and Adams HATED Anu Singh. Hopefully he will hiss at the screen on Canberra’s behalf!
I-Filed, this isn’t a retelling of the Anu Singh case, more an “inspired by” kind of deal. And the Anu Singh equivalent character comes off as in no way sympathetic. Unless they’ve radically changed the cut from the one I saw, there’s no apologist agenda at work here.
Jazz said :
And the blond lead looks like Anita from Heartbreak High? Is it Lara Cox?
it is definately Lara Cox !
Stateline interview with film makers:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2009/05/29/2584976.htm
Ozhair said :
Thanks for the clarification – that’s a relief!
I have seen a screener dvd of this film. I certainly wont be bidding to get a print and doubt that many cinemas will book it. Its very weak story telling at best.
Serenace1: It’s a shame you missed watching it with an audience. The screening at Melbourne Underground Film Festival was packed and rocked the audience. My friends brother even reported the two girls sitting next to him were both devastated and in tears by the end. Cheers.