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Release Date: 26 February, 2002 Retail Price: $9.99 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: |
Dingo Reviews
a good movie featuring a rare view of Miles Davis
The film itself is simple: seemingly low budget and definitely not a Hollywood-directed-produced film. Its nonetheless charming. Colin Friels plays John "Dingo" Anderson, a man supporting his family in the outback of Australia doing odd jobs by day and playing in (what his band-mates call) a "bush-band" in the local halls at night. Although the band has fun, Dingo takes his trumpetting much more seriously; as a child, he had a run-in with famous jazz trumpeter Billy Cross (Miles Davis, in his only staring fictional role). Cross makes a deep impression on the young Dingo, who's lifes passion afterwards is to meet up with Cross in Paris. Despite financial hardship and a love-triangle treatening his marriage, Dingo takes a leap of faith and travels to Paris to meet his hero. The eventual meeting is not only a "milestone" for Dingo, its a type of redemption for Cross.
Although the acting is minimal, Davis is surprizingly convincing as not only a jazz trumpeter (duh), but also a man searching for meaning in his playing and a man discovering another lost soul like himself in Dingo. A slow-moving but nonetheless good film.
Primal canine blasts: Fine recurring melody; Miles = smiles
I listened to the soundtrack from Dingo for many years; today I watched the movie. I was tickled as the themes and audio bites from the soundtrack came together with the story line. Dig the primal canine blasts our hero puts out to the bush and then the audience. Check out the contents of the airplane. As far as Miles goes... I smiled a lot. He's got some great poetic pauses. Should you buy it??? Depthcharge!!
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