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new Australian film Buckley's Chance brims with dated cultural cliches

  • Written by: Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Review: Buckley’s Chance, directed by Tim Brown.

It’s a classic trope of Australian cinema: a foreigner comes here and discovers a wild, rugged place, replete with dangerous and surreal animals and dangerous and weird people.

It’s Walkabout, it’s Razorback, it’s Frog Dreaming. It’s been a common...

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