He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)
DVDRip | AVI | 544 x 304 | XviD @ 825 Kbps | 102 min | 735 Mb
Audio: English MP3 @ 128 Kbps | Subs: English, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish
Genre: Comedy, Romance
DVDRip | AVI | 544 x 304 | XviD @ 825 Kbps | 102 min | 735 Mb
Audio: English MP3 @ 128 Kbps | Subs: English, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish
Genre: Comedy, Romance
A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective.
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand is a novel by Australian author John Birmingham, first published in 1994 by The Yellow Press. The story consists of a collection of colourful anecdotes about living in share houses in Brisbane and other cities in Australia with variously dubious housemates. The title refers to a deceased heroin addict found in one such house. The book was subsequently adapted into a popular stage play and, in 2001, was made into a film by Richard Lowenstein, starring Noah Taylor, Emily Hamilton and Sophie Lee.
I have to say I approached this movie with some dubiousness as I had read the book, which had no plot whatsoever, and was unsure how they were going to turn it into a film, but I found myself really enjoying this movie. Readers of the book will recognise many, many characters amalgamated into a few central ones. Basically this movie is about Danny, an aspiring writer who has lived in 49 different houses with an assortment of dead-beats, moontanners, lesbians, Satan-worshippers, neurotics, etc., etc., their antics and tangled relationships. As far as acting is concerned, Noah Taylor takes the bored, lifeless facial expression to new heights. Despite the lack of plot this was a very easy and enjoyable movie to watch, although it put me off share-housing for life. I would recommend this to any movie-goer looking for something different and original with personality.IMDB Reviewer
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He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)
