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- 2012
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 49 m
- 2012
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 49 m
Summary The film tells the story of a British schoolteacher’s descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in outback Australia. (Drafthouse Films)
Directed By: Ted Kotcheff
Written By: Evan Jones, Kenneth Cook, Ted Kotcheff
- 2012
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 49 m
- 2012
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 49 m
Wake in Fright (1971)
7.0
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Summary The film tells the story of a British schoolteacher’s descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in outback Australia. (Drafthouse Films)
Directed By: Ted Kotcheff
Written By: Evan Jones, Kenneth Cook, Ted Kotcheff
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
85
100% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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It comes from the age of Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange, but none of those movies can match the sheer hardcore shock of the Australian New Wave nightmare Wake in Fright from 1971.
The film's vision of masculine self-sufficiency is built around--and on, via Australia's own bloody colonial history--an elemental violence.
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It's simultaneously terrifying and hilarious, a full-on shotgun blast to the face of rediscovered 1970s weirdness, something like finding out that there's a classic Peckinpah film you've never seen, or that Wes Craven and Bernardo Bertolucci got drunk in Sydney one weekend and decided to make a movie together.
It's not dated. It is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing.
A jolting cinematic experience, Wake in Fright bites like a dingo and kicks like a mule.
Push any guy long enough with alcohol and aggressive masculinity, the film suggests, and you'll find an XY-chromosomed predator lurking behind the mask.
A road movie using undeveloped land as a blank screen on which to project a dark deconstruction of masculinity and manifest destiny.
Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
