Gary Poster, with essential assists from Galyn Norwood, Phiroon Phihakendr, Jose Quijada, Pavandeep Kalra. Ecstasy, police detention and amyl nitrate at a sex club are to follow. But not for long.
Australian films have for a long time danced to a different tune.
In 1994's Oscar-winning Priscilla, director Elliot gave a kitschy glamour and disco beat to the outback odyssey of three Sydney drag queens. But Elliot's sense of rhythm seems to have deserted him. Out of My Hair at the town drive-in, does the film attain Priscilla's giddy high. Where Elliot's film often feels like a soundtrack in search of a movie, Head On, Ana Kokkinos' adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas' angry 1995 novel Loaded, plays like a music video, but one always in touch with its chaotic emotions. His Walkman soundtrack of silverchair, Ammonia and Primal Scream, however, doesn't fit the life his migrant parents plan for him.