The film had its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival on 12 August 2017, and was released nationally in Australian cinemas on 2 November 2017.
Plot
The film's main plotline revolves around a blossoming romance between its two leads, pretentious theremin player Roland and down-to-earth pub band fiddler Keevy. They meet and fall in love at a music festival over three years, amid a microcosm of Australian society.
The film has several subplots, including about Henry who came to Australia from the United Kingdom as a 7-year-old under the Home Children migration scheme and is now a Morris dancer with fiercely Australian attitudes, who meets a refugee boy and a group of Indigenous dancers, and is re-educated.
The film contains several running gags, including the woke singer Diamond and her renditions of classic Australian songs and poems, two middle-aged couples who by the third summer become swingers, a girl band trio vowing to stay together but then two of the three quit, a drum circle group, and a stern security guard who upholds the rules.
The film was written and directed by Ben Elton,[1] and edited by Peter Pritchard.[2]
Three Summers was filmed in the Peel region south of Perth, Western Australia, in 2016.[3][4] It is set at a fictional summer music festival called "Westival" (based on the real-life Fairbridge Festival and filmed there).[5][6]
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 54% of critics reviewed the film positively, with an average score of 4.6/10, based on 13 reviews.[9]
David Stratton of The Australian wrote, "The film is worth seeing for Waters, giving a spirited portrayal of a loving father set in his ways and unable to see that times are changing, and Breeds as his lively, talented, worldly wise daughter."[10]
Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald wrote, "It's a relentlessly well-meaning film and when it's not proselytising, it's working very hard to manufacture enough laughs to make the whole mix palatable. However, the effort shows."[11]
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