Swinging Safari
SWINGING SAFARI
"LONDON PREMIERE
Stephan Elliott (dir) 1h 37m
Comedy 2018 (15)
Short Film
THE VIRGIN
Australian snacks will be on sale - cash only
SATURDAY 7 JULY 2018 5pm £12
Regent Street Cinema
Introduction by Kathy Lette
"I love this film. It's like a home movie to me!"
So said Kathy Lette when we asked her to introduce our exclusive London screening. Kathy, who is great friends with Kylie Minogue and was her guest at a screening of SWINGING SAFARI in Sydney, is coming along to introduce this hilarious comedy starring some of Australia's best-loved acting talent.
Pass the Iced VoVos* and crack open the chateau d’cardboard (aka wine box) as Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce reunite for the first time since Neighbours, in the latest feature from Stephan Elliott (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), a madcap comedy that unceremoniously skewers Aussie family life in the 1970s.
Centred on one suburban cul-de-sac and three ‘rudderless families’ – and told through the eyes of some very bemused children – Swinging Safari explores what it was really like to have grown up with baby-boomer parents determined to out-do their neighbours in everything groovy, forward thinking, and modern.
This is Neighbours, but slightly unhinged and a lot ruder. Expect lashings of pure Aussie kitsch as it catches some of Australia’s best loved actors in uncompromising positions and decked in an array of amazing outfits. Jack Thompson revels in his mayoral role, and Offspring‘s Asher Keddie is hilarious as a strung-out neat-freak housewife. But all eyes are on Guy Pearce (and his handlebar ‘tache) as he glows from the screen – quite literally, when he hits the beach in his togs!
Family dysfunction, sexual tension, sunburn, and a giant beached whale. Be warned – this film is completely BONKERS. But then, so was being a kid in the ‘70s.
Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce are reunited on-screen for the first time since the 1980s in this madcap portrayal of 1970s Australian family life, directed by PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT’s Stephan Elliott.
Moira McVean, former director of the Australian Film Festival at Barbican and our film programmer for last year's festival "laughed herself silly" when she caught a screening in Berlin.
“A cheerfully vulgar, consistently amusing and sometimes hilarious parody of life in a suburban Aussie cul-de-sac in the mid-1970s.”
Richard Kuipers, Variety
With no cinematic release planned for the UK, this could be your only chance to see this 1970s romp on the big screen.
INCLUDED IN THE TICKET
The feature will be preceded by the short film:
"THE VIRGIN"
Jack Yabsley (dir)
Australian Film Television and Radio School
Oz Film Festival supporting Student Short Films
A sweet coming-of-age tale about murder, prostitutes, and small town Tasmania. Tonight Robbie Finn will become a man, whether he wants to, or not.
+ a chance to win a set of books
written (and signed) by Kathy Lette.
+ a fun raffle for amazing door prizes
+ Australian snacks and lollies for sale-