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Bonjour Balwyn

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Director
  
Nigel Buesst

Duration
  

Country
  
Australia

5.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Language
  
English

Bonjour Balwyn movie poster

Writer
  
John Duigan
,
John Romeril

Release date
  
October 1971

Cast
  
John Duigan, John Romeril, Peter Cummins, Alan Finney

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Music director
  
Mike Deany, Carrl Myriad, Janie Myriad

Screenplay
  
Nigel Buesst, John Duigan, John Romeril

Bonjour Balwyn is a 1971 Australian independent film directed by Nigel Buesst. It was one of the most notable films of the "Carlton Wave" of filmmaking.

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Plot

Kevin Agar is a Carlton-based owner of a fledgling magazine who struggles to make ends meet. As his financial situation turns desperate, he finds work assisting a television repair man with repossessions. Agar's parents live in the suburb of Balwyn.

Cast

  • John Duigan as Kevin Agar
  • Peter Cummins as TV repairman
  • John Romeril as Alan
  • Patricia Condon as secretary
  • Barbara Stephens as Christine
  • Reg Newson as theatre producer
  • Camilla Rountree as Rhonda
  • Marcel Cugola
  • Jim Nicholas
  • Alan Finney
  • Peter Carmody
  • Geoff Gardener

    • Production

    The film was shot on 16mm with funds from the Experimental Film and Television Fund. The original running time was 70 minutes but it was cut down to under an hour to qualify for the short fiction competition at the Sydney Film Festival.

    It was not seen widely outside Melbourne.

    References

    Bonjour Balwyn Wikipedia
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    Bonjour Balwyn IMDb Bonjour Balwyn themoviedb.org


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