Bonjour Balwyn

Bonjour Balwyn is a 1971 Australian independent film directed by Nigel Buesst and starring John Duigan, Peter Cummins, and John Romeril. It was one of the most notable films of the "Carlton Wave" of filmmaking.[1]

Bonjour Balwyn
Directed byNigel Buesst
Written byNigel Buesst
John Duigan
John Romeril
Produced byNigel Buesst
StarringJohn Duigan
Peter Cummins
John Romeril
CinematographyTom Cowan
Edited byNigel Buesst
Peter Tammer
Music byCarrl Myriad
Janie Myriad
Release date
October 1971
Running time
55 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Premise

Kevin Agar is a Carlton-based owner of a fledgling magazine who struggles to make ends meet. As his financial situation turns desperate, he finds work assisting a television repair man with repossessions.[2][3] Agar's parents live in the suburb of Balwyn.

Cast
  • John Duigan as Kevin Agar
  • Peter Cummins as TV repairman
  • John Romeril as Alan
  • Patricia Condon as secretary
  • Barbara Stephens as Christine
  • Reg Newson as theatre producer
  • Camilla Rountree as Rhonda
  • Marcel Cugola
  • Jim Nicholas
  • Alan Finney
  • Peter Carmody
  • Geoff Gardener[4]

Production

Bonjour Balwyn was shot on 16mm with funds from the Experimental Film and Television Fund. The original running time was 70 minutes but it was cut down to under an hour to qualify for the short fiction competition at the Sydney Film Festival.[5]

The film was not seen widely outside Melbourne.[6]

See also

References
  1. David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p276
  2. Wilson, Jake. "Carlton + Godard = Cinema: An Interview with Nigel Buesst". In Senses of Cimema (27). Retrieved 10 February 2011.
  3. "Bonjour Balwyn". australian screen. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
  4. Bonjour Balwyn at IMDb
  5. Bruce Hodson, 'The Carlton Ripple and the Australian Film Revival', Screening the Past 23 Nov 2008 Archived 18 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 23 September 2012
  6. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 260–261


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