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He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)
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30 August 2001 (Australia)
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Some people will do anything to get out of paying the rent
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A nightmare chase through hell in a never-ending, unrequited daisy chain of desire... full summary | add synopsis
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Felafel rolls up housesharing
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Noah Taylor | ... | Danny | |
| Emily Hamilton | ... | Sam | |
| Romane Bohringer | ... | Anya | |
| Alex Menglet | ... | Taylor | |
| Brett Stewart | ... | Flip | |
| Damian Walshe-Howling | ... | Milo | |
| Sophie Lee | ... | Nina | |
| Francis McMahon | ... | Dirk | |
| Ian Hughes | ... | Iain the Socialist | |
| Robert Rimmer | ... | Derek the Bank Clerk | |
| Sayuri Tanoue | ... | Satomi Tiger | |
| Linal Haft | ... | Brisbane Goon 1 | |
| Nathan Kotzur | ... | Brisbane Goon 2 | |
| Haskel Daniel | ... | Jabber | |
| Skye Wansey | ... | Detective O'Neil |
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E morì con un felafel in mano (Italy)
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The opening line of the credits reads 'For Michael 1960 -1997', referring to Michael Hutchence, a close friend of director Lowenstein.
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Continuity: In the scene with Dirk and Nina arguing over the pineapple chunks, the label on the can changes from shot to shot, from "pineapple pieces" to "sliced pineapple". Neither can contains "pineapple chunks" as said in the dialogue.
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References Chung Hing sam lam (1994)
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Putting John Burningham's best-selling but episodic reminiscences of house-sharing into a watchable feature film was quite a challenge, but a veteran house-sharer, Richard Lowenstein (`Dogs in Space'), succeeds here by having several of the more interesting and bizarre characters follow the narrator (Noah Taylor) from city to city. The felafel, in fact, a throwaway line in the book, is given centre stage, and the result is a well-focused tale of the horrors of house-sharing it's the `Secret Life of Us' meets `Romper Stomper'.
Noah Taylor is one of those actors who cannot fail if given a goofy role, and here he is perfect as Danny, the aspiring writer roughing it with a collection of druggies, minor criminals, aspiring sorceresses and actors, while trying to evade his creditors and write a prize-winning story for `Penthouse'. Allegedly irresistible to women, he fails badly with his female housemates. As one of them says, incredulously: `Have an affair with you? I'm not a masochist!'
Romane Bohringer gives another strong performance as Anya, a sort of social bomb-thrower with a taste for Druid ritual, who puts any place she joins into an uproar in no time. Then there is Taylor the mad drunk (Alex Menglet), Flip the junkie (a touching performance from Brett Stewart), Nina the terminally vain soap actor (Sophie Lee hopefully not as herself) Iain the doctrinaire socialist (Ian Hughes in Melbourne of course) and Dirk the emerging homosexual (Francis McMahon), amongst others. Some of the landlord's agents do not lack colour either eg Linal Haft's rent collector as gangster in Brisbane.
All these characters are somehow accommodated in the story, though an early peak (the great bikie party in the Brisbane house) is followed by rather a flat period in Melbourne. Once the circus reaches Sydney, however, things pick up again perhaps it's the more effervescent air.
The tropical squalor of the first house, a battered `Queenslander,' reminded me a little of `Praise', a vastly different film in tone, but Danny is not necessarily one of life's defeated, though it seems like that sometimes. This movie has a decidedly upbeat tone; the last place might have been pretty rugged, bet there's always the hope of something more salubrious, or at least of more congenial flatmates. No doubt admirers of the book will take offence at what has been left out, but Lowenstein should be given credit for giving it a cinematic context.