A sergeant-major finds himself threatened by the heroism of an attractive new recruit and, fuelled by resentment, envy and hate, becomes obsessed with plotting the young man's downfall. Though little is spelt out explicitly in this tale of repressed emotion leading to murderous jealousy, the film is accessible and clear throughout. The director's concerns are with how a wide open colonial outpost may become a prison, how men cope with an all-male society and how the physical can mirror the metap
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THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT (1994)
Certification15 Our Rating
Deliciously camp comedy about three Sydney drag queens who accept a gig in Alice Springs, that hot-bed of cosmopolitan liberalism! A stonking seventies soundtrack accompanies the inevitably eventful trip through the outback, but it's the outstanding performances which make this such a corker.
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