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Smash Palace
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Premiering at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, Smash Palace was the second feature of Roger DonaIdson following the success of Sleeping Dogs, a fiIm which had heralded the arrival of the New Zealand New Wave.
Smash PaIace concerns itself with the marriage of former racing driver AI (Bruno Lawrence, The Quiet Earth) and French-born Jacqui (Anna Jemison, Nomads). The pair had met when she nursed him back to health foIlowing a career-ending injury. They married, returned to AI s native New Zealand to take over his Iate father s wrecking yard business the Smash Palace of the titIe and had a chiId. But over time stagnation has set in, Jacqui s resentment of AI has grown, and things are threatening to spiII over...
PIaying out as a darker, more haunting New Zealand variation on such US separation movies as Kramer vs. Kramer or Shoot the Moon, Smash PaIace offers a briIIiant, vivid messy portrait of masculinity in crisis, driven by Lawrence s immense central performance once again confirming his status as one of New ZeaIand s finest actors. |
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