The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert 1994
- Director: Stephen Elliot
- Based on book: no
- Cast: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Bill Hunter
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Hugo Weaving – Mortal Engines, Strangerland, The Hobbit etc, Cloud Atlas, V for Vendetta, Little Fish, Lord of the Rings etc, Matrix etc, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
- Guy Pearce – Genius, Prometheus, The King’s Speech, The Road, Factory Girl, A Slipping-Down Life
- Terence Stamp – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Song for Marion, Valkyria, Wanted, Full Frontal, Star Wars, The Limey, Superman, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Collector, Billy Bud
- Bill Hunter – Australia, Muriel’s Wedding, Strictly Ballroom, Gallipoli, Ned Kelly
- Why? Liked it the first time
- Seen: Once before. Now 17 November 2019
Is the Outback really ready for these
three drag/drama queens? No. They laugh off the hostility, ridicule and
violence but it still hurts. Together in the bus they bitch bitterly, laugh
hysterically at vulgar jokes and get lost in the middle of nowhere. And Nowhere
in Australia is very big.
The story is sweet, the three leads
leave me speechless with admiration – can that really be Hugo Weaving?! (it’s just
a coincidence that we just watched Mortal Engines with a much older
Weaving on Friday) – and the costumes, each one more dreadful than the next,
are hilarious and deserve their Oscar. And has there ever been a better scene
than the one with these three ultra-disco-clad drag queens doing ‘I Will Survive’
in the Australian desert night accompanied by digeridoo and applauding (if
sceptical) Indigenous fans?
4 ½ * of 5
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