The King Is Dead! (2012)

The King Is Dead! (2012) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
102 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Rolf de Heer

Written By:
Rolf de Heer

Actors:
Roman Vaculik ..... Otto
Michaela Cantwell ..... Maria
Lily Adey ..... Mirabelle
Nathan Hoare ..... Baby Rupert
Kerry Ann Reid ..... Real Estate Agent (as Kerry Reid)
Gary Waddell ..... King
David Mealor ..... Open Inspection Man
Eliza Lovell ..... Open Inspection Woman
Ruby Walker ..... Child
Jemima Walker ..... Child
Bojana Novakovic ..... Therese
Dan Wyllie ..... Max
Luke Ford ..... Shrek
Anthony Hayes ..... Escobar
Adam Page ..... Drug Customer
Phil Hayward-Surry ..... Dodgy Character
Robert Tompkins ..... Cowering Man (as Robert Tomkins)
Parmeet Dhillon ..... Taxi Driver
Charlotte Rees ..... Policewoman
Craig Behenna ..... Policeman
Barry Shedden ..... Fingerprinter
Giuseppe Lo Faro ..... Old Sicilian Man
Jeff Lang ..... Policeman #1
Patrick Graham ..... Policeman #2
Patrick Duggan ..... Locksmith
Jasmine Kurda ..... Screaming Girl
Aaron J. March ..... Cranky Franky (as Aaron March)
Gemma Theatre-Riley ..... Aboriginal Girl
Jemimah Kennedy ..... Toddler Rupert
Jack Wetere ..... Man Mountain
Lani John Tupu ..... Boss Maori
Richard Bennett ..... Silent Maori

Synopsis:

Open inspection at the house-for-sale in the quiet, leafy neighbourhood...Max, science teacher, and Therese, tax accountant, decide that here is the house for them. Unsuspecting, they buy and move in, finding a nice family on one side and, well, 'interesting' on the other. But interesting soon becomes loud, and loud soon becomes intolerable and when the intolerable becomes the violent, and the police are powerless to do anything, and the community lawyer suggests ear plugs, Max and Therese are forced to try and solve the problem of the neighbour from hell themselves...and end up with a corpse on their hands. But even that's not the worst of it, because the corpse from hell has friends...and even worse, enemies...

Heading to the suburbs, Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer mixes deadpan humor and soft menace for the latest entry in an oeuvre that could only be filed under miscellaneous. It should come as no surprise that the genre-tripping de Heer has turned to suburban comedy following the Chaplinesque silence of 2007's Dr Plonk and the glorious Dreamtime fable Ten Canoes, 2006 winner of the special jury prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard. It's not a case of 'why' but 'why not?' A working knowledge of the Dutch-born writer-director's eclectic, often playfully dark filmography will shepherd the viewer through the early stages of this commonplace tale of neighborly misadventure before it turns violent and strange in the third act. The King is Dead!,opening in limited release domestically,may reward devotees, but its unhurried pace and low-key humor are unlikely to command attention in the way of his brutally confrontational, suburbia-set breakout Bad Boy Bubby. Skipping from mailbox to mailbox along a leafy suburban street, the camera comes to rest upon a modest Federation bungalow where loving middle-class couple Max (Dan Wyllie) and Therese (the protean Bojana Novakovic) seal the purchase of their first home with a kiss. The ink is not dry on the contract when they realize they have made a big mistake. Their neighbors on one side are a friendly chef, his wife and their 4-year-old moppet, Mirabelle, who is tickled pink when Max builds a 'magic door' linking their properties. On the other side, however, is King (Gary Waddell). King's house-cum-drug-den pulsates day and night with rap played at ear-splitting decibels, screeched profanities and bad energy.

Rolf de Heer's new feature, which he wrote and directed, has a ticklish idea at the centre of its plot, a kind of comedy of manners, mostly of the very bad, irritating kind.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 07 March, 2013.

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