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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0932222502478
Feature: THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER
Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
Label: Umbrella Entertainment
Manufacturer: Umbrella Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 86160
Studio: Umbrella Entertainment
Features:- THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Documentary, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s),SYNOPSIS: Bruce Beresford returned to the austerity of his first Australian films with The Fringe Dwellers. Kristina Nehm stars as an Aborigine woman named Trilby, who along with her tribespeople lives on the fringes of 'accepted' Australian society. Trilby's mother (Justine Saunders) urges her family to remove themselves from squalor and move up to a fashionable all-white suburb. What with the snobbery of her new neighbors and an onslaught of visiting relatives, Trilby never has a moment of happiness. She seeks solace in the arms of her boyfriend (Ernie Dingo), but this only results in an unwanted pregnancy. Her 'escape' to a better life is an indirect result of her newborn child's death. Bruce and Rhoisin Beresford adapted the script of The Fringe Dwellers from the novel by Nene Gare.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Australian Film Institute, Cannes Film Festival,
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Look past the cliches
The Fringe Dwellers of the title are Australian Aborigines living in shanty towns on the fringe of white Australia. Predictably, this is the story of a family acting out the destiny of an aboriginal people caught up in modernization and each and every cliche is included. We get prejudice, we get rage. We get your noble savage and your white liberal. Most of all, we got two people with different views of what matters and what life means.
Unpredictably, this movie manages to shed some ... Read More
Rating:  - When Cultures Collide
A sad, depressing story dealing with cultural bigotry and societies unsympathetic treatment of Trilby Comeaway (Kristina Nehm) a young Aboriginal girl who has bought into the Anglo dream of upward mobility and assimilation into mainstream white society. Trilby talks her Mother into leaving their shabby dwelling in a aboriginal community and move into an all white neighborhood.
Trilby gets her wish however things don't turn out as planned. Shunned by her new white neighbors and unable ... Read More
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