Stir
Stephen Wallace
- Australia
- Drama / Thriller
- 1h41mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Never shown in theaters
New master
Stir faithfully recounts the events that unfolded at Bathurst prison in Australia in 1974, from the ordeal of prison life to the bloody mutiny that followed.
Sharp as a baton blow, Stir is to prison movies what Bruce Beresford’s Money Movers (1978) is to the heist film, born from the same Australian 70s cinema soil, harsh, raw and in an incisive realistic documentary style. For his first feature film Stephen Wallace excludes all temptations of heroism or Manichaean simplifications, exposing the brutality of reality while never making a show of it, in a frontal humanistic style evocative of Sydney Lumet. The character portrayed by Bryan Brown is in fact not unlike the one played by Sean Connery in The Hill.
Screenings
06/09 • 14h30 • Screen 100
11/09 • 14h45 • Screen 300
Credits
- With : Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller, Gary Waddell, Phil Motherwell...
- Screenplay : Bob Jewson
- Photography : Geoff Burton
- Editing : Henry Dangar
- Music by : Cameron Allan
- Production : Richard Brennan
