When Australian New age motion pictures burst on to world cinema screens in the 1970s, sceptical audiences were initially baffled by the broad accents and peculiar colloquialisms.
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Sunday Too Far, a renowned tale about male culture and commitment in a 1950s shearing shed, was the very first success of Australia's golden age of movie theater however Americans were particularly perplexed by it, producer Matt Carroll remembers.
"They identified that Sunday was a fantastic movie but they didn't comprehend it," he states.
"It was pretty incomprehensible to anyone who wasn't an Australian. At American screenings, you may too have had it in Dutch."
But French audiences were much more inviting of the film at Cannes Directors Fortnight, thanks to the spouse of an Adelaide cars and truck dealership who 'd sold Carroll a Peugeot.
"She said, 'oh yes beloved, I understand Parisian street slang, I'll translate everything for you (into subtitles)'," Carroll continues.
"I remember being in the cinema and the very first thing that shows up is someone in the shearing shed states about the squatter, 'his shit does not stink'. When it was equated, the Parisian slang for that is 'he farts above his asshole'."
In the substantial screening space, "the whole audience just went nuts, definitely insane, and we got a huge sale to France", Carroll laughs.
"It's the language of the bush," explains famous Australian star Jack Thompson, who depicted the hard-drinking gun shearer, Foley.
"There's a wonderful camaraderie revealed in that film. Sunday says something a lot more profound about the Australian character than a variety of other films that examined our success and failures."
Thompson, who left home at 14 to work as a jackaroo in the NT, states "it was like a journal, it was simply how individuals acted - I remember, because as a teenager, I remained in those sheds.
"Sunday Too Far Away has an actually fundamental part in my career and in my memory
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