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| The Fringe Dwellers [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ] | ![The Fringe Dwellers [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WSJDAZGGL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Bruce Beresford
Studio: Umbrella Entertainment
Category: DVD
Buy New: $21.98
New (2) Used (1) from $21.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 87775
Format: Import, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 98
UPC: 932222502478
EAN: 0932222502478
ASIN: B000AOMTUA
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Languages:o English (Dolby Digital 2.0) Synopsis:Bruce Beresford returned to the austerity of his first Australian films with The Fringe Dwellers. Kristina Nehm stars as an Aborigine woman named Trilby, who along with her tribespeople lives on the fringes of "accepted" Australian society. Trilby's mother (Justine Saunders) urges her family to remove themselves from squalor and move up to a fashionable all-white suburb. What with the snobbery of her new neighbors and an onslaught of visiting relatives, Trilby never has a moment of happiness. She seeks solace in the arms of her boyfriend (Ernie Dingo), but this only results in an unwanted pregnancy. Her "escape" to a better life is an indirect result of her newborn child's death. -Trilby Comeaway (Kristina Nehm) is an Aboriginal teenager living in a squalid shantytown with her extended family who are divided between those more assimilated to the white world, like Trilby and her sister, and an older generation still attuned to the mythology of their culture. A quietly ambitious girl, Trilby persuades her mother, Mollie (Justine Saunders), to move into a prosperous white neighborhood somewhat beyond their means but to Trilbys dismay, the entire extended family moves with them. With the white locals freely expressing their distaste for the new neighbors and Trilby's relationship with boyfriend Phil (Ernie Dingo) resulting in an unwanted pregnancy, things are not turning out how Trilby had imagined. From award winning Director Bruce Beresford (The Club, Puberty Blues), Fringe Dwellers is a gentle yet compelling film about the difficulties of being a person who truly belongs in no world but their own. Special Features:o Cast/Crew Interview(s)o Commentaryo Documentaryo Interactive Menuo Photo Galleryo Scene Accesso Trailer(s)
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 Look past the cliches September 25, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
The Fringe Dwellers of the title are Australian Aborigines living in shanty towns on the fringe of white Australia. Predictably, this is the story of a family acting out the destiny of an aboriginal people caught up in modernization and each and every cliche is included. We get prejudice, we get rage. We get your noble savage and your white liberal. Most of all, we got two people with different views of what matters and what life means.
Unpredictably, this movie manages to shed some light on the situation by not taking a preachy stance of its own. No one is particularly wrong here. This may madden the missionaries and the marxists, but it's really satisfying for the anthropologists and the audience.
The actors are mostly amateurs which adds a strange charm- the cinamatography is also amateur, which decidedly does not. Over-filtered sunsets alternate with washed-out daylight scenes. In spite of serious flaws, the honesty of the script and the beauty of the Australian landscape make this a movie worth seeing.
Lynn Hoffman, author of The New Short Course in Wine and the forthcoming novel, bang-BANG from kunati press.
 When Cultures Collide August 10, 2005
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
A sad, depressing story dealing with cultural bigotry and societies unsympathetic treatment of Trilby Comeaway (Kristina Nehm) a young Aboriginal girl who has bought into the Anglo dream of upward mobility and assimilation into mainstream white society. Trilby talks her Mother into leaving their shabby dwelling in a aboriginal community and move into an all white neighborhood.
Trilby gets her wish however things don't turn out as planned. Shunned by her new white neighbors and unable to escape the constant presence of her extended family who follow them to their new home, she finds herself trapped between two cultures. Not acceptable to one and hounded by the other Trilby tries to find solace in the arms of her boyfriend Phil (Ernie Dingo) which leads to more sorrow in the form of an unwanted pregnancy and the childs untimely death.
Another excellent film dealing with the plight of the modern day aborigine and the damage done by trying to mainstream this ancient culture into white Australian society. A wonderful companion film to be viewed along with this one would be Werner Herzog's "Where The Green Ants Dream."
I bought this - Region 4 - Import DVD about a month ago. It comes in a clear plastic case with good cover art inside and out. The Disc also contains some nice special features if you're into that. Just make sure you have a - Region Free - player.
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