NFSA Restores: Muriel's Wedding – 'You've made it'
1994
NFSA Restores: Muriel's Wedding – 'You've made it'
1994
- NFSA ID3KK07144
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormFeature Film
- GenresComedy, Drama
- Year1994
'Do you ever think you're nothing? Sometimes I think I'm nothing. Useless.' So says Muriel Heslop, the flawed protagonist of the PJ Hogan Australian classic Muriel's Wedding, played to perfection by Toni Collette.
This clip is from the NFSA Restores digital restoration of Muriel's Wedding.
Summary by Amal Awad
CURATOR'S NOTES
In the multitude of stories that explore the path to self-fulfilment and acceptance, Muriel's Wedding (PJ Hogan, 1994) stands out. It's famously powered by the timeless sounds of ABBA, of which composer Benny Andersson has said 'even the happier songs are melancholy at their core' (as told to biographer Jan Gradvall).
But it's the simplicity, honesty and quiet realisation of moments like Muriel's confession in this clip that 'sometimes I think I'm nothing' that explain the film's enduring success. This is a film that shows how it's not the unknown or the hidden that takes us by surprise in our darkest times: it's what we have known about ourselves all along but try to ignore. In Muriel's case, what she shows to the world does not reflect what she truly believes about herself.
Notes by Amal Awad
'Do you ever think you're nothing? Sometimes I think I'm nothing. Useless.' So says Muriel Heslop, the flawed protagonist of the PJ Hogan Australian classic Muriel's Wedding, played to perfection by Toni Collette.
This clip is from the NFSA Restores digital restoration of Muriel's Wedding.
Summary by Amal Awad
CURATOR'S NOTES
In the multitude of stories that explore the path to self-fulfilment and acceptance, Muriel's Wedding (PJ Hogan, 1994) stands out. It's famously powered by the timeless sounds of ABBA, of which composer Benny Andersson has said 'even the happier songs are melancholy at their core' (as told to biographer Jan Gradvall).
But it's the simplicity, honesty and quiet realisation of moments like Muriel's confession in this clip that 'sometimes I think I'm nothing' that explain the film's enduring success. This is a film that shows how it's not the unknown or the hidden that takes us by surprise in our darkest times: it's what we have known about ourselves all along but try to ignore. In Muriel's case, what she shows to the world does not reflect what she truly believes about herself.
Notes by Amal Awad
- NFSA ID3KK07144
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormFeature Film
- GenresComedy, Drama
- Year1994
In the multitude of stories that explore the path to self-fulfilment and acceptance, Muriel's Wedding (PJ Hogan, 1994) stands out. It’s famously powered by the timeless sounds of ABBA, of which composer Benny Andersson has said 'even the happier songs are melancholy at their core' (as told to biographer Jan Gradvall).
But it’s the simplicity, honesty and quiet realisation of moments like Muriel’s confession in this clip that 'sometimes I think I’m nothing' that explain the film’s enduring success. This is a film that shows how it’s not the unknown or the hidden that takes us by surprise in our darkest times: it’s what we have known about ourselves all along but try to ignore. In Muriel’s case, what she shows to the world does not reflect what she truly believes about herself.
Notes by Amal Awad
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