Dingo

June. 02,1991      
Rating:
6.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician, Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown after his plane is diverted. Years later, now a family man and making a meagre living tracking dingoes and playing trumpet in a local band, John still dreams of joining Billy on trumpet and makes a pilgrimage to Paris.

Colin Friels as  John Anderson
Miles Davis as  Billy Cross
Helen Buday as  Jane Anderson
Joe Petruzzi as  Peter
Brigitte Catillon as  Beatrice Boulain

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Reviews

FirstWitch
1991/06/02

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Kien Navarro
1991/06/03

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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Hattie
1991/06/04

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

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Philippa
1991/06/05

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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jimibrowncat
1991/06/06

If there was an 11 I would score 11. I love this film I have watched it dinned out on it sung about it turned people onto it for years! In a strange parrallel I'm living out my own version of Dingo due to my admiration for the film/story/characters. This is without doubt my favourite Australian film and nobody knows about it! It's going to be a time capsual thing 100 years from now a new generation and all that jazz. What the film also represents is the maypole that highlights the seemingly corrupt? Inept, commercially driven world of the Australian film critic ....Correct me if I'm wrong David and Margaret take a bow here....this film got completely ignored !?!? WTF! Even the Oscars snubbed it because the paperwork was filled out incorrectly. Bless. In a way it's fitting like a pure and perfect M.Davis note. There is no mistaking that this is his love/life letter to his fans , he is the man, it's his only film role he also passed just before film got distribution. I wonder if that mucked up the press junket's. Shame on you film critics and long live hope and striving for your dreams. I hope you get there!

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dent-7
1991/06/07

This was on SBS TV recently in Australia and is still listed on SBS on Demand http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/369526339639/dingo as of Feb 2015I'm a country boy, although growing up in the South-West of Western Australia is nowhere near as remote as the countryside shown in the movie.Still, I could relate to that music, in that setting, as the perfect eerie accompaniment to the land's empty indifference.The reviewers who have said it is unrealistic because of the lack of Aboriginal characters are wrong - I counted at least four in the background of the 1969 scene - look for the pink shirt and the guy in the blue tank-top behind the kids at the airport.The Australian characters are absolutely spot-on, not the caricatures of Croc Dundee.

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mrjlkelly
1991/06/08

I have an old VHS copy of this film and I haven't had a VHS player for more than a decade. I'm not even sure if this ever came out on DVD, I've never seen it in a video shop and I have looked through many. This movie is kind of like an Outback Australian Sci-Fi Jazz Road Trip, brought to you by the man who blessed us with Bad Boy Bubby. The opening scene when Miles Davis lands his space ship (commercial airliner?!?!!), in the desert and proceeds to blow fragile rural minds to smithereens with an awesome array of Jazz Fusion is priceless. I pray to the almighty gods of Jazz that they might one day release this fine film in a format befitting cinema as far out as this.

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AncientWind
1991/06/09

I won't fight with Phil Kafcaloudes synopsis of the movie, its spot on, I just wanted to add my comment on the final jazz scene in Paris.Every time i have described that scene to friends and all, I cry. Tears of joy mind you,Reason? Its because of the look on Colin Friels' face,a kid in candyland for the first time, maybe, you can see he is in seventh heaven , the only dream he ever had is coming true in front of us the movie audience and in front of the live audience in the Paris club,The moment just takes you to a special place of powerful emotions of Happiness.what can i say? i cry at movies , so sue me!! grinp.s. this is ridiculous even writing a comment has made me cry!!

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