Locations: the small town of Braidwood, New South Wales and the surrounding areas of the southern tablelands. Kennedy Miller really just provided the finance, though in post-production we got involved by making the odd suggestion. Freya emerges and then they're at the haunted house, and Freya hugs Trevor. I like the idea of being able to follow through that character's journey perhaps over several more films and maybe in conjunction, sometimes, with some of the other characters that we have got to know. Similarly, a cockatoo resident at the pub owned by Danny's parents was a tribute to a cockatoo Duigan remembered seeing at a country pub. The Year My Voice Broke is set in the summer of 1962 in a remote New South Wales country town. In the school room, the teacher Miss McColl (Mary Regan) reads a poem by Judith Wright, as Sgt Pierce and the school headmaster (Vincent Ball) interrogate Freya as to whether she's heard from Trevor. A drunken Nils Olson arrives to catch the pair snogging, and as he shouts about not seeing her again, Anne Olson emerges to tell Nils to shut up and drag him inside. They compare the two drawings, and Danny's excited because he reckons the sun is pretty close to a star. Write a review. The Year My Voice Broke rewatched – coming of age in the backwoods A defining tale of lost adolescent love in rural New South Wales, featuring Noah Taylor, Ben Mendelsohn and … The trouble was he'd been OK to me… Then there was that force-field at the ghost house … I'd felt it alright, that night we'd stayed there. They can pick up certain weaknesses quicker than you can yourself. Pretty juvenile sort of stuff. Danny: Please God, I'm sorry for this. Miller confirmed this in another interview for Cinema Papers, November 1989 when talking of the company slate: The feature films tend to be less collaborative and much more the work of the directors. For the film, it became home and business for Freya Olsen (sic) and her family…. Wonderful, perceptive, and original Australian film about the magic and anguish of adolescence. A crucial difference was that it was agreed Duigan could shoot on 35mm for the budget of a modest feature film (the other three telemovies were shot on 16mm). The Year My Voice Broke Photos. Down at the pub cellar as they haul out empty kegs, Danny does ask his father. Duigan opened by deploring a trend in American movies of the The Last Movie, Blue Velvet, River's Edge kind, saying that he thought the amorality of the portrait of adolescence in that last film was more akin to immorality, citing some very unpleasant aspects to the film (the camera returning to linger over the body of the dead girl), and saying it suggested to him "an extremely cynical and almost despairing view of the world…". He says he loves her, they're both no different and she thanks him for still being her friend, and turns away to the cafe. Did you ever go out with her? Don't have an account? Trevor gives her a wolf whistle. Duigan hasn't got much time for films that are either 'strident' in tone or 'cynical' in motivation. The Year My Voice Broke is a 1987 Australian coming of age drama film written and directed by John Duigan and starring Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen and Ben Mendelsohn. You watched me piss. He doesn't mind it's all over town. Now, that'd be the place to take your girlfriend …. There's places in the cities, I reckon. You also introduced international racial overtones with the African student played by Thandie Newton. Or does she already know? Green bedspread, little gas fire, picture of the Blue Mountains on the wall, and one of those soft mattresses. Duigan was also lucky to have other very experienced actors turn up for relatively minor roles - such as Vincent Ball (who had worked in the UK and started with shows in the 1950s such as, New Zealand born Mary Regan (who scored the leading role in Craig Lahiff's noir thriller, OTR star Queenie Ashton can be glimpsed - her ABC radio serial, Duigan says of working with designer Ford and DOP Geoff Burton that their three way collaboration was. But she'd still go there, even when she was 16. And on the other, an acknowledgment that the desire for such a retreat (and the glamour associated with it) is a product of the very social realities it denies. Jonah (Bruce Spence) announces he's finished chapter twelve of his novel. The Year My Voice Broke, directed by John Duigan, is a coming-of-age drama based around the experiences of an awkward, prepubescent boy, Danny, who painfully watches his childhood sweetheart, Frey, blossom into womanhood as she falls for a local rugby hero, Trevor, and how their lives are permanently changed over the course of a year. Danny? Every boy in town started out with her. The main character and narrator is Danny. Like the plot, the "relationship dynamic" is archetypal. Trevor scares Freya with a dead rat and wants to get rid of "Bandy", but Danny wants to find out more about the haunted house, and he gets some wood for the fire. This surely is the perception of some independent American filmmakers who may be driven to de-romanticise and ironise their movies by Hollywood's increasingly hysterical and wildly romantic myth-making. She says he's chicken, and he challenges her to go in there at night for ten quid. (sic). The Year My Voice Broke 1987 1h 43min | Drama, Romance | 15 October 1987 (Australia) Storyline: In 1962, a prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, setting off a chain of events that irreversibly changes the lives of everyone involved. Danny knocks down a glass as the pop song Diana plays in the background. The Year My Voice Broke Setting is a small country town (pic was shot in Braidwood, NSW) in 1962. She got out of hospital in the arvo and things have finished with her step-parents. If SPAA had succeeded, it might have had a significant impact on the film's theatrical release, as the five AFI Awards the film won played a big part in Hoyts' domestic campaign for the film. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. And that place on the hill was like a free brothel. Nine years, five movies and a miniseries later, these worlds describe quite accurately what Duigan is up to in The Year My Voice Broke. Not one word needed to be changed. He'll be alright, he's lucky remember, and he sends the ute bursting through the garage doors and into the night, as one cop clinging to the car drops off …, In the police station, Danny begins singing the song The Man who Shot Liberty Valance as the cops continue the search …. Certainly The Year My Voice Broke fits the bill. Duigan then went on to discuss his own work with Thompson, who also provided her own views on his traditionalist and romantic style in, Fourteen-year-old Danny (Noah Taylor) is in love with 15-year-old Freya (Loene Carmen). Co-producer George Miller recounts in his DVD introduction two problems he had with the film. The Year My Voice Broke. The Year My Voice Broke is the finest film to come from Australia. C/G Am7/F Am7/G Am7/F That was the year that my heart broke. They could get married, pretend it was his, get engaged, he doesn't care. He likes poetry, he speculates about hypnotism and telepathy, and all these sorts of things, but he's a very cerebral character," explains Duigan. We decided to shoot it 35mm rather than 16mm and came to an arrangement with equity and the actors that, if it worked out, it would get theatrical distribution.". But I think that they could see that the life of having to go and work in the dark satanic mills of the early factories in England was going to crush a part of their nature. Danny: "It must be. Duigan: Yes, Bruce Spence's character, Jonah, was writing Australia's first erotic novel and living in a railway carriage, but I gave him some of the philosophical views that I ascribe to myself, and he was able to play those moments very, very well. At school, Danny listens to news of Freya's pregnancy spreading amongst the kids, with Malseed leading the way in the gossip stakes. There are some autobiographical elements in the story as Duigan explained to David Stratton for Stratton's 1990 survey of the 10BA years, The Avocado Plantation: Though not exactly autobiographical, the character of Danny does express some of Duigan's own sensibilities and views of the world. Presumably Duigan decided to extract more juice from Ashton's character by burying her in the third act. A worthwhile trip to early Sixties, small town, Australia where burgeoning youth learns that even the most innocent of lives here on Planet Earth is fraught with difficulty. I wanted to generate a lot of warmth between the characters." |. |, August 30, 2004 The Year My Voice Broke. Danny looks up at the moths fluttering around the street light, while Freya says everyone's asleep, the whole town's dreaming. He lies down on his bed to masturbate but is sprung by the arrival of Freya, inviting him to come out for a walk. The only piece of actual construction was a small extension to the old house on Jillamatong Hill. Take most of it with a grain of salt. Pierce says they'll have to drop Freya off because the Olsons won't pick her up - they don't want anything to do with her. The Canberra Times refers to a five week shoot, but this might refer to the time spent in Braidwood. This view is also drawn from his individual relationships, in Flirting from his relationship with Thandiwe (Tandy Newton), the daughter of an African nationalist academic who is lecturing in Australia for a year. The cinema is referenced by any number of posters outside the town movie house and on Danny's (Noah Taylor) bedroom walls. | Rating: 3/5, July 9, 2003 ", Freya: "No. Gail asks Sal what's on at the flea palace, and she says it's a romance set in Hawaii and says she'll come too, and Danny walks away muttering about stupid stuck up little third formers. Add to Wishlist. "I got the time wrong and turned up late for the job and didn't get it," Carmen said. Though it was a small film, it was picked up by Warner Brothers for the United States, no doubt through the Kennedy Miller Mad Max connection, and given a respectable art house release. "Well you know what I mean. 'Cause I'm really keen on him.". When Tom asks her if her father allows her to drink, Freya says he's her step-father. It had similar arthouse releases in the UK and various European territories, with modest business done. Gail hugs her and says she doesn't want her to go, but Freya says she has to …. The Year My Voice Broke PG-13 | 1h 43min | Drama , Romance | 17 October 1987 (USA) In rural 1960s Australia, a boy watches helplessly as his best friend falls in love with a small-time criminal, setting off a violent chain of events. "Their (sic) was the 'Carmen Camembert' and the 'Duigan Deviate' drink and 'the Noah's Ark' and heaps of others. Her father could've been half the men in town … Well!?". Willy Hill, she used to call it. However, it should also be noted that the rail line never reached Braidwood and so all the railway scenes are a clever cheat. When Freya falls hard for juvenile delinquent Trevor, a strange love triangle emerges. (For more of Carmen, see the bottom of this site's photo gallery for newspaper stories about her). Malone: You brought in Aboriginal themes explicitly with Jonah, the Bruce Spence character, in The Year My Voice Broke. Cut to a train going past Jonah's carriage as he works at the typewriter and Danny's asking what happened to his woman from Cootamundra. Duigan thinks he might have been a bit worried about what might happen to it. Anything.'" "It was there, something cold," says Danny and Trev points out of course it was cold, freezing - "you let the fire go out, you idiot.". A couple of lads (Kelly Dingwall one of them) try to crack on to her, offering her beers and to walk her home. and the Terms and Policies, There are some autobiographical elements in the story as Duigan explained to David Stratton for Stratton's 1990 survey of the 10BA years, Duigan added this in his interview with Peter Malone, Duigan mentions a number of other elements personal to him in his DVD commentary. Gail tells her Trevor is mad and unstable, Sal says it's because he's hyperactive, and asks if she slept with him. The Year My Voice Broke ★★★ 1987 (PG-13)Above-average adolescent drama: a girl breaks a boy's heart by getting pregnant by a tougher, older boy, then leaves town. He slides his hand through the broken door to open it, and another hand grabs his and he lets out a yell of surprise and fear - followed by Trevor's strange, goofy laugh. ...So perfect was the Braidwood location that few changes or renovations were necessary to create just the right look for the film. With Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell. It did reasonable art house business, according to Screen Australia, making $213,901 at the box office, putting it in position 110 in 2014 in Screen Australia's list of films that did over US$100,000 in the United States. There are also a few live music moments - for example, Noah Taylor's character sings, without accompaniment, some of the lyrics for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which had previously played on the soundtrack in its pop single form. Nonton The Year My Voice Broke (1987). Then he looks over at Freya and as Freya also takes a piss, notes she's changed in the past couple of years, and isn't a bad sort now. No quotes approved yet for The Year My Voice Broke. ", The story, set in the early sixties, has all the ingredients of a classic teenage tragedy: adolescent dreams squelched by authority in the form of parents and police, all against the backdrop of a nervy, narrow-minded country town. Narrated in the past tense by a grown-up Danny, it has strong elements of the other worldly. Director John Duigan provides a number of insights into the production of the film in his DVD commentary track. A Delltones' song accompanies images of the pair walking across the hills to the town in the distance. Danny says he can feel them too. For the look Duigan wanted to achieve, both hotels were half right. It is estimated that more than $400,000 was injected into the town by the film during the five weeks Kennedy Miller was there. It was ", According to Duigan, Ben Mendelsohn already had a slightly strange laugh, "and when I first heard it, I thought we would embellish it a little bit and work it into the film as an added, slightly manic element in his personality. "I said, 'Yes. That's terrific,' and letting him go off with a wonderful crew to spend five or six weeks in Braidwood. May the debate rage ever on. Danny asks her if she loves him, and Freya suggests Danny asks her sister so that he can come to the movies with them on Saturday. (they're both crying). So he was prepared to cut himself out of his own movie. Trevor starts kissing Freya in earnest, and Danny raps the door with firewood to stop them. Danny (v/o): "If the whole world's a museum, an imprint of everything everyone's done or thought, then I knew what kind of force-field'd be in my bedroom. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. The Film Critics Circle of Australia in 1988 awarded Noah Taylor its "Best Actor - Male" award for his work in the film. Danny says they don't talk as much and Freya says it's because they move in different circles and gets him to sing the song heard earlier, Get a Little Dirt on Your Hands. We were shooting a mini-series Vietnam and John Duigan shuffled up to me one day and very casually handed me this screenplay and he said, 'This is something I've just finished writing, take a look at it.' In the pub, Danny overhears his father saying it's in the blood, and his mother saying that his father never told her. The Year My Voice Broke is a gripping tale about a young adolescent boy who falls in love with his best friend. 'And he has very different relationships.' (For more of Carmen, see the bottom of this site's photo gallery for newspaper stories about her). The cockatoo lived out the back near the gents toilets, which gave him a pretty … interesting repertoire. Duigan then went on to discuss his own work with Thompson, who also provided her own views on his traditionalist and romantic style in The Year My Voice Broke: ...Before he became a filmmaker, John Duigan did a Master's degree in philosophy at Melbourne University. Nils is still into the Flag Ale as he tells her she never stops, she can't help it, can she …. ", Sheila: "That's a disgusting expression.". (Eugene Register Guard, 20th September 1988). For more details about the music, see this site's pdf of music credits. In England as a boy I would pay threepence for the Saturday morning matinees and be scared witless by films like The Forbidden Planet, and at Danny's age, I always thought Brigette Bardot was gorgeous.". We kept a blanket there, and sometimes had feasts of chocolates and lollies. Danny (v/o): Every year we used to earn pocket money helping with the hay baling at some of the nearby properties. Duigan had turned to working in television after the commercial failure of his teen end of the world comedy, One Night Stand, which had prevented him being able to finance a film called Flirting, about life at a boarding school in the mid-60s (subsequently this was turned into a sequel for The Year My Voice Broke). "Aw shit," says Trev. Everything that's ever happened in a place, it's all there.". In school, the headmaster brings news and Miss McColl tells the class that Trevor died as the result of the injuries he received when his car ran off the road. This figure includes money spent in renting and leasing locations and accommodation the purchase of goods required in the making of the film and general living expenses for the cast and crew. | Rating: 4/5, January 1, 2000 It was really nice. When the special effects people lost their way and were late in arriving, when heading to a pre-dawn shoot of a scene near the end of the film, between Freya and Danny, the mist that was wanted by director Duigan was provided by "brilliantly inventive" standby props man Colin Gibson, using some smoke flares he carried in his van; The art department moved various bits and pieces of farm machinery into position around the "haunted" house, Duigan named his two town bullies Pierdon and Malseed after two powerful boys at his school, while he named the featured town pub on a whim after Lord Palmerston, a Whig minister of the 1860s (though on the sign outside, it can be seen clearly that it was the Commercial Hotel, which traded under that name up to c. 2004, when it became the Braidwood Hotel, listed. 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