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7 July 2001 (Australia) more
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6 wins & 1 nomination more
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Exceptional fly-on-the-wall doco more (5 total)

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Anne Boyd ... Herself
Winsome Evans ... Herself
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The Renaissance Players ... Themselves
The Song Company ... Themselves
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Canada:89 min
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Exceptional fly-on-the-wall doco, 22 September 2001
9/10
Author: leask81 from adelaide, australia

It must be said that the key to making "reality" shows work lies in the truth of the subject. Sure, you can knock up TV programs like BIG BROTHER, SURVIVOR, etc..., which will appeal to a less discriminating commercial audience, but to win critical approval, it's difficult to go past recent Australian efforts FACING THE MUSIC and CUNNAMULLA. You just had to see the coverage of last week's New York terrorist disaster to realise this fact. FACING THE MUSIC is a wonderful, searing portrayal of one woman's journey of self-discovery: Anne Boyd, head of the Department of Music at the University of Sydney, is introduced as a conservative academic, who naively believes she's teaching purely for the love of teaching. By the film's end, however, she has realised her true love, and also has changed politically, becoming a far more aggressive person with her views, which she has obviously sorted out for the first time. On a wider scale, the film shows (from one side only, unfortunately) what universities Australia-wide are experiencing: as a law student at the University of Adelaide, I can tell you this kind of thing is not confined to the performing arts centres of Sydney. Perhaps our law faculty's problems aren't as severe, although the students in FACING THE MUSIC would hardly have had much idea about the severity of the situation prior to the aggressive strike action. Film is a brilliant media for highlighting the plight of a certain group of people, and it should be used more often for this purpose. FACING THE MUSIC is a well-crafted story which should satisfy everyone who prefers THE CASTLE to INDEPENDENCE DAY. Rating: 9/10. See also: CUNNAMULLA, NEWSFRONT, STRIKEBOUND, and BIGGER THAN TINA (for some comic relief!).

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