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69057
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30/06/2022
Country
Australia
Production Company
Latent Image/Specific Films
Title
The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert [videorecording]
Distributor
ROADSHOW DISTRIBUTION 1994
Description
Blu-ray Disc (103 min.) sound,color; 16:9 (2.35:1) +Audio commentary with Stephan Elliott/ "Birth of a Queen" Making-ofdocumentary/ "Tidbits from the Set"/ "The Bus From Blooperville" - gagreel/ Deleted scenes/ Theatrical trailer/ Teaser trailer.
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RATED M - FOR PERSONS 15YRS & OVER
Contents
Blu-ray/Dolby Digital 2.0 DTS 5.1/colour
Credits
Producers: Al Clark, Michael Hamlyn; Director, writer: StephanElliott; Photography: Brian J. Breheny; Music: Guy Gross; Editing: SueBlainey; Costumes: Lizzy Gardiner, Tim Chappel.
Subtitles
French/ Dutch/ Swedish/ Norwegian/ Danish/ English and German for thehearing impaired.
Cast
Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter, Sarah Chadwick.
Summary
One of the most commercially successful Australian films of the nineties both locally and internationally, this road-movie comedy follows the adventures of three Sydney drag-queens who travel through the Australian outback to Alice Springs where they are booked to perform their cabaret act. On their journey across the desert in their bus 'Priscilla', they encounter both friendship and enmity from people in the small bush communities they pass through. The film's humour derives mainly from the dissonance between familiar cultural and sexual stereotypes. Cliches of gay male and drag culture such as bitchy repartee and high camp are set against those that highlight the eccentric behaviours of rural Australian characters. Similarly, stereotypical images of the natural beauty of the outback landscape are juxtaposed against the lurid over-the-top outfits donned by the trio during their journey. This contrast re-works the familiar construction of the outback landscape in Australian cinema as a metaphor for national identity traits constructed in masculine terms. By promoting the mythology and showbiz glitz that surrounds such lifestyles and eliding the real struggles faced by transvestites and trans-sexuals to be fully accepted into society 'Priscilla' played a major role in bringing drag sub-cultures into the mainstream internationally.
Subjects
Show business
Feature films
Gay men
Homosexuality
Transvestism
Feature films -- Australia
Comedy films
Language
English/ German/ French/ Castilian/ Italian
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Pearce, Guy, 1967-
Stamp, Terence
Clark, Al
Elliott, Stephan
Hunter, Bill
Weaving, Hugo
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Manual Restriction
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