The Coca Cola Kid (1985)
Country: AUS
Technical: col 94m
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Cast: Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr
Synopsis:
A troubleshooter for Coca Cola travels to Australia to investigate the low sales there, and finds a salt of the earth type is making a lone stand against American imperialism.
Review:
Weirdly unsatisfactory marriage of cocky national cinema with a notoriously iconoclastic director. While there is little doubt of the identity of the icon to be broken in the present case, the satire is surprisingly toothless and the young lead characters steadfastly refuse to behave like normal human beings. Having bared every inch of her splendid figure to the camera Miss Scacchi then seemed to hold a grudge against Makavejev at Cannes for that very fact. The most memorable image has a wallaby standing at the roadside wearing a sling while a convoy of Coca Cola trucks passes by through the outback.
Country: AUS
Technical: col 94m
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Cast: Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr
Synopsis:
A troubleshooter for Coca Cola travels to Australia to investigate the low sales there, and finds a salt of the earth type is making a lone stand against American imperialism.
Review:
Weirdly unsatisfactory marriage of cocky national cinema with a notoriously iconoclastic director. While there is little doubt of the identity of the icon to be broken in the present case, the satire is surprisingly toothless and the young lead characters steadfastly refuse to behave like normal human beings. Having bared every inch of her splendid figure to the camera Miss Scacchi then seemed to hold a grudge against Makavejev at Cannes for that very fact. The most memorable image has a wallaby standing at the roadside wearing a sling while a convoy of Coca Cola trucks passes by through the outback.
Country: AUS
Technical: col 94m
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Cast: Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr
Synopsis:
A troubleshooter for Coca Cola travels to Australia to investigate the low sales there, and finds a salt of the earth type is making a lone stand against American imperialism.
Review:
Weirdly unsatisfactory marriage of cocky national cinema with a notoriously iconoclastic director. While there is little doubt of the identity of the icon to be broken in the present case, the satire is surprisingly toothless and the young lead characters steadfastly refuse to behave like normal human beings. Having bared every inch of her splendid figure to the camera Miss Scacchi then seemed to hold a grudge against Makavejev at Cannes for that very fact. The most memorable image has a wallaby standing at the roadside wearing a sling while a convoy of Coca Cola trucks passes by through the outback.