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Within the confines of a seedy Brisbane boarding house, Gordon, the inert protagonist, and his demanding, eczema-suffering girlfriend Cynthia repeatedly attempt to connect with each other. Unlike other films portraying sex in a rather open and frank way, Praise is less about sex than about failure. Being a loser has been a regular mainstay of independent films for a long time, but this film attempts to expose the emotional strata rather than the social aspects. Cynthia's crudeness becomes the expression of self-defeating behaviour and Gordon's torpor is played for much more than laughs from the audience. Praise is in many ways an era-defining Australian film, accurately portraying and examining the contemporary landscape of heterosexual love and the blurring of traditional gender roles and emotional states.
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The Making of Praise : An Aussie Grunge Classic
2017
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 18 August 2017; -
Rules of Engagement : Cross-Cultural Glances in Critical Writing on Recent French and Australian 'Youth' Films
2005
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— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies , vol. 19 no. 1 2005; (p. 73-84) -
Scrubbers : The 'Great Unwashed' of Australian Cinema
2003
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— Appears in: Womenvision : Women and the Moving Image in Australia 2003; (p. 183-195) Examines the function of a particular type of female character in Australian cinema. -
Not Made in Queensland
2001
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— Appears in: Writing Queensland , September no. 100 2001; (p. 18-20) Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 38-44) -
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2000
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— Appears in: The Age , 28 October 2000; (p. 8)
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Shelf Life
2000
single work
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— Appears in: The Age , 28 October 2000; (p. 8) -
Rules of Engagement : Cross-Cultural Glances in Critical Writing on Recent French and Australian 'Youth' Films
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies , vol. 19 no. 1 2005; (p. 73-84) -
Not Made in Queensland
2001
single work
column
— Appears in: Writing Queensland , September no. 100 2001; (p. 18-20) Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 38-44) -
Scrubbers : The 'Great Unwashed' of Australian Cinema
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Womenvision : Women and the Moving Image in Australia 2003; (p. 183-195) Examines the function of a particular type of female character in Australian cinema. -
The Making of Praise : An Aussie Grunge Classic
2017
single work
column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 18 August 2017;