(1993) 99 min Rated M Dir: David Elfick
Cast: Rhondda Findleton, Martin Sachs, Aden Young, Craig Adams, Russell Crowe
This rites-of-passage period comedy set in WA in 1957 is set to the Rhythm and Blues tunes of unrequited love. Sixteen year old Ken Riddle, to whom sex is a mystery, joins his two mates from work on a trip to Kalgoorlie’s infamous red light street in a fumbling attempt to collectively lose their virginity. Coincidentally his glamorous widowed mother Gwen, a talented dress designer, sets out on her own wobbly journey, to a new romance - and a new career - on stiletto heels.
Shot in Kalgoorlie, Cottesloe and around Perth the film is full of icons of the era and social mores of the day. Puffing on Lucky Strikes lit by Zippos, driving Studebakers adorned with tailfins, the characters want to fall out of limbo and into love.
Did you think Russell Crowe's performance in a comedy role was suited to him.Was the fifties era captured in this movie..and what was the main theme of the film?
2 comments:
Love in Limbo ?...........love it.
On reflection, the contrast between the deeply conservation, parochial society of the post war 50's Perth and the arrival of rock in roll, the age of Aquarius, provides fertile ground for comedy. L in L mines this ground with skill. The story is cliche ridden stock of any age; boy would be man and a iconic Holden to facilitate the inevitable transaction. But well done David Elfick for a sound script and good performances with a host of actors well known to theatre audiences of the 80's and 90's. Casting Russell Crowe as a Welsh speaker enhanced the comic potential of the character but also ensured those many fans of the actor would help the long levity or long lived-ity of this fun movie. Let us laugh at ourselves before laughing at others and what better place to start than L 'L
Perhaps there were too many stereotypes but it was a happy, funny , joyful film which made me laugh out loud at times.
All the acting was convincing except for the pompous birdwatcher.
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