Joe Leahy's Neighbours

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Joe Leahy's Neighbours
Directed by Robin Anderson
Bob Connolly
Written byRobin Anderson
Bob Connolly
Produced byRobin Anderson
Bob Connolly
StarringJoe Leahy
CinematographyBob Connolly
Edited byRay Thomas
Bob Connolly
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Joe Leahy's Neighbours is a 1989 Australian documentary film, created by Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly, looking at Papua New Guinean business man Joe Leahy and relationship to those around him. [1] It is some ways a sequel to First Contact . [2]

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Reception

Neil Jillet of the Age says "Documentary is a hopelessly inadequate word to describe 'Joe Leahy's Neighbours'. This wonderful film has the dramatic strength of a first-class feature. It is an anthropological tragi-comedy full of conflicts among fascinating characters. It is also a psychological thriller about collectivism v. capitalism, about “primitive” ways v. “sophisticated” ones, that regularly seem about to erupt into violence, possibly murder." [3] The Sun-Heralds Rob Lowing finishes "the slyly witty final images are a summary in themselves and a memorable finishing touch to a film which is both thought provoking and entertaining." [4] Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald' David Stratton says "This beautifully-made 90-minute documentary is an invaluable insight into life in PNG, and a perceptive study of a strange king of colonialism". [5]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Gilling, Tom (12 April 1989), "Listening in the dark to a clash of cultures", The Sydney Morning Herald
  2. ↑ Milliken, Robert (14 April 1989), "A telling image of PNG's social fabric", The Australian Financial Review
  3. ↑ Jillet, Neil (3 May 1989), "Great drama in documentary on PNG life", The Age
  4. ↑ Lowing, Rob (16 April 1989), "Joe Leahy's Neighbours", The Sun-Herald
  5. ↑ Stratton, David (20 April 1989), "Neighbours PNG style", The Sydney Morning Herald
  6. 1 2 French, Lisa; Poole, Mark (2009). Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute. Australian Teachers of Media. p. 257. ISBN   978-1-876467-20-3.
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