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COSI


Cosi 1996
Director: Mark Joffe
Writer: Louis Nowra
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Country: Australia
Runtime: 102 min.
Awards: 2 nominations, 1 win: 1996 -AFI Award (Australian Film Institute) Best Screenplay, Adapted (Louis Nowra).

A young director-amateur Lewis gets a unique chance to prove his talents.

Indeed, the chance is very doubtful, because Lewis has to make a performance in the context of a government program of the rehabilitation of mentally sick persons, and the actor staff must include wards of the Sydney Institute of Mental diseases.

The idea is crazy in itself, so the choice of repertoire seems to be adequate they are rehearsing Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte"

Nobody from the "actors" can sing, not to mention speak Italian, in which the libretto is written.

And only mad ideas can save this mad project! But the more difficult the way to success is the sweeter are its legitimate benefits.

This movie came into the world as a result of a great success of the theatrical performance of the same name. A characteristic property was the fact, that three leading theatrical actors proved themselves in a screen version of the play. Among them was of course David with his picturesque Doug.

Disheveled, untidy, vulgar, brusque, sexual worried, unbalanced and sometimes very violent pyromaniac Doug with an always smoldering cigarette, with an insolent face, scabrousness and staggering rapper's inclinations... A completely charming creature!!!

It's a pity he didn't manage to play on the stage a lover: cruel hospital attendants put him away to the isolation ward for all his outstanding talents...

A masterpiece!

Cast:

Ben Mendelsohn    ...Lewis
Barry Otto    ...Roy
Toni Collette    ...Julie
Rachel Griffiths    ...Lucy
Aden Young    ...Nick
Colin Friels    ...Errol
Jacki Weaver    ...Cherry
Pamela Rabe    ...Ruth
Paul Chubb    ...Henry
Colin Hay    ...Zac
David Wenham    ...Doug
Tony Llewellyn-Jones    ...Kirner
Kerry Walker    ...Sandra
and the others...





 


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