Children of the Revolution (1996) (original) (raw)

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Original title

Children of the Revolution

Year

1996

Running time

101 min.

Country

Australia

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Genre

Comedy | Biography. 1950s

Synopsis

Australia's most consistently fascinating export, Judy Davis has made a career of playing intriguingly high-strung women with a hilariously icy edge. Here, she plays the leader of Australia's Communist Party in the early 1950s whose struggles to keep the party alive are rewarded with a trip to Russia to meet Stalin himself (F. Murray Abraham). The meeting turns into a seduction, and she returns to Australia carrying Stalin's love child. So it's no surprise when her son Joe (Richard Roxburgh) grows up to be a political rabble-rouser, bringing the country to the brink of disaster. Filmed in mockumentary fashion by writer-director Peter Duncan, the film is never quite as funny as you wish it would be, but works as well as it does because of the performances by Rush and, particularly, Davis. --Marshall Fine (from amazon.com)

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Awards

Comedy. Winner 3 Awards (Actress, diseño and Costume Design) of la Academia of Cinema Australiana. 9 Nominations

Critics' reviews

• "Children of the Revolution won't leave its audiences weak with laughter, but it should have the most perceptive among them arguing in the aisles."
• "Duncan zips through five decades and dozens of characters without reducing the participants to cliches or slogans. A remarkable cast helps him to keep focused on the core of the piece."
• "Children bumps into a few dead spots along its irreverent way... But casual sophistication and wiggy Australian self-awareness give this product of unreconstructed bourgeois decadence its idiosyncratic charm."
• "It is enormously ambitious -- maybe too much so, since it ranges so widely between styles and strategies that it distracts from its own flow."

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