Three Summers (2017)
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- Synopsis:
- At a summer music festival the feisty lead singer of an Irish folk band (Rebecca Breeds) meets a folk music-hating Theremin player (Robert Sheehan) and sparks literally fly. Characters surrounding this awkward romance including a fiercely Aussie Morris Dancer (Michael Caton) an indigenous dance troupe a group of wine-loving empty nester's a power tripping security guard a wannabe girl band and some musical asylum seekers. In fact, all manner of stories collide under the meddling eye of community radio super star, Queenie (Magda Szubanski) who welcomes the campers back three summers in a row for a folking good time.
- Actors:
- Robert Sheehan, Rebecca Breeds, Michael Caton, Magda Szubanski, Kate Box, John Waters, Deborah Mailman, Caroline Brazier, Kelton Pell, Nichola Balestri, Jacqueline McKenzie, Peter Rowsthorn, Mahesh Jadu, Christiaan van Vuuren, Joseph Pedley, Sam Longley, Adriane Daff, Embla Bishop, Christina Oldham, Stefanie Caccamo
- Directors:
- Ben Elton
- Genres:
- Comedy
- Countries:
- Australia
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Reviews (1) of Three Summers
Preachy pc plots but with genuinely funny comedy sketches by Ben Elton - Three Summers review by PV
Written and directed by adopted Aussie leftie Ben Elton, so no surprise top hear his preachy voice in the mouths of some characters - that is the weak point of this occasionally woke leftie lecture on how wondrous all immigrants are and how Australia belongs to Aborigines (who were immigrants there 40,000 years ago of course).
One wonders if people knew about the real history they would honour the elders at the end of the film credits - they killed disabled and mixed race babies, for one thing. Romanticisng pre-colonial cultures is actually as racist as demonising them.
BUT some things here are funny. The film is really a series of sketches stapled together and some are great - I especially l;iked the community radio DJ Queenie (Magda Szubanski who should have had an Oscar nomination imho) and her woke pc extremist feminist campaigner folk singer singing classic Aussie folk songs with new woke pc gender neutral words. GREAT! Ben Elton shows that he in fact thinks woke metoo gender-fluid transmadness femitwerpery is as absurd of most of us do.
Best just enjoy the sketches which can be funny, and Ignore the silly slushy romantic plot - as thin as a Rizla. Though I always enjoy hearing a Theremin!
The clunky subplot of cartoon character 2D bigot Aussie child migrant if compared to a non-white asylum seeker boy in a MASSIVE way OVER AND OVER AGAIN just in case you did not see the link and pro-immigration political point being made. Preachy pc lecture.
A little twee film best watched to enjoy the occasional funny sketches.
2 stars