The director has turned his polarising film Australia into a six-part TV series.
I’ve long wondered if Baz Luhrmann has Oscar Wilde’s mantra “nothing succeeds like excess” embroidered on scatter cushions all over his house., which has now been re-fashioned as a four-hour TV series from the 1.1 million feet of film shot during the film’s making.will unfold over six parts, or chapters, as Luhrmann calls them, with a score enhanced by the work of Indigenous composers and musicians and a new titles sequence featuring graphics redolent of the dust cover of a 1940s potboiler.
It’s a narrative that bounces merrily through a medley of moods and styles ranging from broad Croc Dundee-style comedy to overblown melodrama, rising to a climax which takes place during the Japanese bombing of Darwin. And according to Luhrmann, who introduced a preview of the first episode at Sydney’s SXSW Festival at the weekend, there is a different ending.
It’s chaotic enough to work as slapstick but Kidman’s performance is so caricatured that it never really recovers. She herself has since looked back on it critically, saying she can’t feel proud of her work in the film. But she does praise Jackman and Brandon Walters as Nullah, the young Aboriginal boy who bonds with her.Brendon Thorne/Getty Images
Also poignant is the appearance of David Gulpilil as Nullah’s grandfather and it’s fun to watch former industry stalwarts Bill Hunter and Ray Barrett having a good time in the Darwin sequence. Barrett died a year after the release of Australia and Hunter’s death came two years later.
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