Fresh Air

Fresh Air (1999)

Fresh Air, which focuses on ordinary moments of everyday life, is an original hybrid of urban comedy and kitchen-sink drama. It is also a realistic depiction of relationships among lovers, friends, and family in the multi-cultural environment of a big city. The protagonists are three thirty-something housemates with artistic aspirations.

Data di uscita
1999-05-06
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (3)
Durata
1 h 32 min
Regista
Neil Mansfield

Cast

Curiosità

  • Incassi: 10,1K A$

Fresh Air is a 1999 Australian film directed by Neil Mansfield and produced by Rosemary Blight, starring Marin Mimica, Nadine Garner and Bridie Carter. Set over one week in July 1998, the film tells the story of Jack, Kit and E, three housemates who live together in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville. The narrative is based on a zine within the film called Pretty Ugly made by one of the characters, and is presented non-chronologically in an editing style inspired by zine culture that Mansfield called "zinema."

Production

Mansfield was working at Film Australia and working on the script. It began as a purely visual comedy, "then I started working in dialogue and it took off from there," said Mansfield. "In the final stages of development, we worked on bridging the kitchen sink drama with the observational comedy."

Mansfield showed the script to Rosemary Blight who liked it and decided to produce it. "I first read it on the bus between Broadway and Newtown," Blight said, "and I couldn’t stop laughing. It was very observant of people – in fact, some of the characters seemed to be on the same bus with me… He’s very observant…his view of the world is very different. In other scripts, you see people larger than life, but he sees them as they are."

"I'm interested in underachievement," said Mansfield. "I'm interested in underdogs. The film is loaded up with scenes in which I don't tell the audience how to think."

Mansfield wrote 12 drafts of the script. It eventually got some finance through the New Screenwriters Scheme of the NSW Film and TV Office, through which Bill Bennett agreed to mentor Mansfield. Then the film attracted support from Bridgit Ikin, head of SBS Independent, and Marion Pilowski, Head of Acquisitions and Program Development at Premium Movie Partnership (Foxtel) who supported the film's successful application to be one of the five "Mill…

Mansfield called the film "'zinema'... a wanky excuse for a cut and paste style. Zine as in home made, non-profit sort of magazine. It’s expressionistic in style but naturalistic in content."

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