Movie Reviews of Aboriginal Teenager's Australian Road Trip
- Aboriginal Teenager’s Australian Road Trip
“There’s nothing I would rather be/Than to be an Aborigine/And watch you take my precious land away,” go the words to the politically barbed singalong that rings out in “Bran Nue Dae,” a deceptively slap-happy Australian pop fable set in the late 1960s.
The songs in the movie, loosely adapted from a popular stage entertainment created by the Aboriginal band Jimmy Chi and Kuckles, have become anthems in Australia’s indigenous culture. Whether there is an American audience for this buoyant nonsense from a far-off region remains to be seen. This isn’t Stephen Sondheim or even “Hair,” although “Bran Nue Dae” has some passing resemblances to that ’60s Broadway landmark.
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