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Exits (1979)

Exits poster
Directed by
Paul Davies
Country
Australia
Runtime
47 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film follows several characters as they walk through Melbourne and deal with the fallout from the 1975 dismissal of Australia's Labor government. It shows how the political event affects their personal lives and sense of direction.

documentary-stylereflectivedownbeatmeanderingcontemplativegroundedmelancholicobservational

What happens

Exits is a 1979 Australian drama-documentary directed by Paul Davies. It centres on the effect of the 1975 dismissal of the Labor Government of Gough Whitlam on a handful of characters wandering around Melbourne. It is the earliest of several treatments of the event, which include Home on the Range (Gil Scrine, 1982) and The Dismissal (1983). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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