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'Tony leaves Melbourne, hitching north in search of an old girlfriend. He has just done six years in Pentridge, during which time his mother committed suicide. He has a dog named Billy, a sawn-off shotgun in his bag, and two big scars on his face, courtesy of a 'reunion' with Jerry Maquire, one of his old criminal mates. At a country-town café, Tony gets a ride with Sam, a fashionable young woman driving a 1938 Buick. They head to Sydney together, but he resists getting involved. He wants to find Anna, the woman he thinks he still loves. Sam is unhappily involved with a Sydney fashion photographer. When Tony finds out Anna has moved to Queensland, he and Sam head north again in the Buick. When they eventually find where Anna lives, Tony realises he's in love with Sam.'
Source: Australian Screen.
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In Search of Anna
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1979
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single work
criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , March vol. 5 no. 3 2012; (p. 281-292) 'The Gold Coast has a crime problem, which will not come as a surprise to the viewers of the films and television programmes that feature Australia's sixth largest city. The vast majority of material set on the Gold Coast has criminal themes. The Gold Coast is an imagined city created, to a large degree, by a multiplicity of moving image artefacts produced by visitors. From the miles of amateur footage shot by tourists to pseudo-Hollywood blockbusters, the Gold Coast exists as a surf and sun paradise, at least in the minds of audiences around the world. However, analysis of a variety of moving image products suggests that not far behind the glitz and glamour of the beach-based boosterism is the grimy flip side of crime, corruption and desperation. This imagined paradise is encircled by sharks, both from the sea and the land. But the crime themes explored so far by the Gold Coast film industry do not address the real transgressions on which the city is founded, neither the deals that saw a city built on sand and swamp nor the dispossession of the original inhabitants.' (Editor's abstract)
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single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Folklore , November vol. 25 no. 2010; (p. 203-211)'Various Australian films made in the post-war period have attracted considerable attention both here and (occasionally) overseas, some deservedly so, others through media hype often based on sentimental, satiric, or otherwise simplified perceptions of this country. In Search of Anna is one production from the fruitful decade of the New Australian Cinema which merits serious reconsideration. This account endeavours to correct the neglect of what is a significant work of art, setting it in a filmic as well as a social context.'
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Awards
- 1979 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Film
- 1979 won Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Screenplay: Original
