REVIEW“The winner of eight Australian Film Festival awards, this tells the entertaining story of Malcolm (Colin Friels), something of an electronic whiz who is a bit backward (think of Father Dougal with an Australian accent) but, one assumes, harmless enough. Having lost his job at the tram company for making his own mini-tram and riding it around town after-hours, he takes in lodgers ex-con John Hargreaves and his girl Lindy Davis to help pay the bills. Before long the three of them turn to a life of crime, adapting their combined skills to earn themselves a bit of easy money. Malcolm is engaging, funny and features some of the most fantastically silly stunts.”
— Giala Murray, Empire “In less than five minutes, this quaint and endearing film – a hit with crowds and critics, but cultish enough to be discovered by new audiences – neatly establishes its antihero as a screwy genius who moves to his own mechanically engineered beat. Malcolm is a clever and oddly warming oddity: a crime caper in which nobody gets their comeuppance and which doesn't condescend, nor turns a blind eye to the peculiarities of its lead character.” — Luke Buckmaster, The Guardian |
FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGSCanterbury
Monday, 10 August, 7:30pm |