When Australian New Wave films burst on to world cinema screens in the 1970s, sceptical audiences were at first baffled by the broad accents and peculiar colloquialisms.
Sunday Too Far Away, an iconic tale about male culture and loyalty in a 1950s shearing shed, was the very first big hit of Australia's golden era of movie theater however Americans were specifically perplexed by it, producer Matt Carroll remembers.
"They identified that Sunday was a great film however they didn't understand it," he states.
"It was quite incomprehensible to anybody who wasn't an Australian. At American screenings, you may as well have had it in Dutch."
But French audiences were even more inviting of the movie at Cannes Directors Fortnight, thanks to the other half of an Adelaide automobile dealership who 'd sold Carroll a Peugeot.
"She stated, 'oh yes beloved, I understand Parisian street slang, I'll equate everything for you (into subtitles)'," Carroll continues.
"I keep in mind being in the movie theater and the first thing that comes up is somebody in the shearing shed states about the squatter, 'his shit doesn't stink'. When it was translated, the Parisian slang for that is 'he farts above his asshole'."
In the substantial screening room, "the entire audience simply went nuts, absolutely crazy, and we got a huge sale to France", Carroll laughs.
"It's the language of the bush," describes famous Australian star Jack Thompson, who portrayed the hard-drinking gun shearer, Foley.
"There's a terrific sociability expressed in that movie. Sunday says something a lot more extensive about the Australian character than a variety of other motion pictures that examined our victories and failures."
Thompson, who left home at 14 to work as a jackaroo in the NT, states "it resembled a journal, it was just how people behaved - I keep in mind, since as a teenager, I remained in those sheds.
"Sunday Too Far has an actually fundamental part in my profession and in my memory
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