Golden Braid

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Golden Braid
Directed by Paul Cox
Written byPaul Cox
Barry Dickins
Based onstory La Chevelure by Guy de Maupassant
Starring Chris Haywood
Gosia Dobrowolska
Paul Chubb
Jo Kennedy
Production
companies
Distributed byBeyond
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
CountryAustralia
Language English
BudgetA$900,000 [1]

Golden Braid is a 1990 Australian film directed by Paul Cox, who later called it "quite a funny film, but very few people get it." [2]

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It was entirely funded by the Australian Film Commission. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p129-130
  2. "Interview with Paul Cox", Signet, 13 January 2001. Retrieved 18 November 2012