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Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation

BAFICI 2009
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Year:

2008
Original Title:

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation
País:

Australia 
Director:

Mark Hartley

Color:

Color
Format:

35 mm
Duration:

103 min
Cast:
    Production:
    • DIRECCIÓN: Mark Hartley
    • GUIÓN: Mark Hartley
    • FOTOGRAFÍA: Karl von Moller, Germain McMicking
    • MONTAJE: Jamie Blanks, Sara Edwards, Mark Hartley
    • PRODUCCIÓN: Michael Lynch, Craig Griffin

    Synopsis

    Australia wrote the wildest, most cave-dwelling, pyrotechnic, enjoyable page in the history of genre cinema under the reign of Ozploitation, in which some of the most rebellious older and younger sisters of the Mad Max saga were produced. Throughout the seventies and eighties, a group of Australian filmmakers made a collection of cult movies, mainly action and horror, in which ideas on sex and violence were shot out at vertiginous speeds. Bull's eye on the screen! Thus, Australians became the kings of cinematic dribble by crystallizing masterful cinematic landmarks of excess out of the cheesiest set-ups, which could portray, for example, a macabre prestidigitator who terrorizes kids, a truck that chases a boat, the most bizarrely perverse picnic, flying bicycles, bikers more diabolical than the Hells Angels, and a person vegetating in a come who is more sinister than Dracula. This documentary is about all of this and many other indescribable things, with the best film clips of far-out sequences, and with the protagonists and groupies of Ozploitation, who introduce us to the most addictive pleasure for any film-buff: films that are pure exception with no rule.