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A Girl in Australia

1971 · 107 min

A gentle, bittersweet culture-clash comedy that ambles across the outback, mixing awkward romance with quiet loneliness and old-world shame.

Overview
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • immigration
  • identity
  • deception
  • love
  • class
Places
  • road trip
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Luigi Zampa
Written by
Rodolfo Sonego
Starring
Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone, Corrado Olmi, Tano Cimarosa, Nick Buttaro, Angelo Infanti, Elli Maclure
Music
Piero Piccioni
Cinematography
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Runtime
107 min
Country
Italy
Languages
Italian

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