There are certain Australian film classics that are fair dinkum, true blue, bloody bonza.
Director Ken Hannam’s 1975 drama Sunday Too Far Away, starring acting legend Jack Thompson as a hard-drinkin’ sheep shearer, is regarded as one of the great films of the Australian New Wave.
A hit at the Cannes Film Festival, Sunday Too Far Away helped put Australian cinema on the map.
A brand new digital restoration of undisputed classic is on its way to cinemas. It will play at Melbourne’s ACMI cinemas on April 9. We’ll let you know if/when other cinemas add the film to their programs, too.
Sunday Too Far Away explores themes still relevant today, and seeing it on the big screen again marks a rare opportunity.
As The Guardian wrote, “The film’s title comes from a legendary lament reportedly from a shearer’s wife: ‘Friday night [he’s] too tired; Saturday night too drunk; Sunday, too far away.’ Those final four words also match up to a broader reading of the film: its portrait of lives spent working for the weekend and the dispiriting emotions that entails.”
