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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Ana Kokkinos |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1994 |
| MANUFACTURER: | First Run Features |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 720229907842 |
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Customer Reviews of Only the Brave
Brave movie: captures a bit of truth and the gay youth Only the Brave is an engrossing, moving film that reveals more to the viewer than many films that run twice as long and say half as much. This hard-edged voyage through a few days in the life of a tough teenage girl is one of the most powerful lesbian features we've ever seen. Greek-Australians who searching their sexuality in a world that cannot accept differences... mixed tradition, confused indentities, proud to be Greek, consider Aussie...etc
It is nominated for many awards schemes and it is a Winner of several competitions such as "Winner of the 1994 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Audience Award for Best Feature" and Cannes Festival. It has a Highly European taste with a kiss of Greece and Australia...!
why is bravery always so humourless?
The seeds of my discontent with director Ana Kokkinos' later Head On were planted with this earlier feature. Kokkinos' style is all brooding forbodence but she lacks a basic narrative drive. Her aesthetic remains that of a short film-maker, one whose strengths are visual. Creating mood is fine but a feature requires some variety in tone. Without it, an audience's endurance is severely tested. Set in Melbourne's outer west, this is a coming of age tale of a writer who emerges from a miserable existence. Kokkinos presents her predominantly female Greek Australians in their ugly/beauty, their behaviour tribal, impulsive and unexplained. As in Head On, sex is about power, attraction cloaked in animosity. Even a tender lesbian advance is coloured by the metal rings worn by the seducer. That the lesbianism is due to an absent mother, one who is seen in dreams wearing a blood red dress no less, is a cliche, though the father acts just as disinterested. Apparently this is all the perfect breeding ground for an artist, since presumably happy people have nothing to write about, though the lesbian poetry we are given a glimpse of that the heroine admires, is pretty awful. Kokkinos stages two set pieces badly - a school brawl with an unconvincing chorus, and a scene of self-immolation, where the focus is more on the witness' reaction than the poor victim. However the music of Philip Brophy in a chase scene is redemptively good.