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Jun 15, 2017 · Hotel Coolgardie: Directed by Pete Gleeson. With Nicolina, Stephanie, Peter Coffey, John Joseph Lowe. On a road between Australia's most isolated town and its largest gold mine lies Coolgardie, where the arrival every three months of a new foreign backpacker couple is a much-anticipated event.
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- Pete Gleeson
- 2017-06-15
Oct 21, 2023 · Two Finnish women work at a remote pub in Coolgardie, Perth, to earn back their savings after a robbery in Bali. They face harassment, sexism and cultural shock from the locals and the director, Pete Gleeson.
Jun 22, 2017 · Photograph: Raw and Cooked Media. Documentary films. This article is more than 6 years old. ‘I was crying, and I was angry’: Hotel Coolgardie's shocking portrait of sexism in the outback. Two...
- Trailer Aims to 'Spark Attention'
- Not Flattering to Outback Says Stratton
- Reactions to Film
- Unique Character of Locals Attracted Filmmaker
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Perth-based filmmaker Pete Gleeson said the snapshot of life in the town given in the trailer was intended to generate talk. "The trailer is designed to, you know, spark people's attentions and that's kind of what it did," he said. But he said the trailer was just that — a trailer. "It's really hard to sum up the nuance of an entire film in a trail...
The town of Coolgardie, with its grand, but tired, facades, empty blocks of land and quiet streets, is far from the bustling WA gold capital it was in the late 1800s, once dubbed the mother of the Goldfields. With a downturn in the mining industry, coupled with improved mining techniques and a rise in people working fly-in-fly-out rosters, the soci...
While the film centres on the jarring experiences of the Finnish backpackers with often-drunk local men, there were many times during the screening when the Kalgoorlie cinema erupted with laughter. As the story naturally evolves, unexpected characters surface in the story, and there are moments of affecting emotion between the backpackers and local...
Mr Gleeson said the unique, no-nonsense character of the people in the region, which attracted him in the first place, was what made the film what it was. He reminded people that it was a film and by that very nature, it was only able to capture a limited perspective. "You can't sum up anywhere at all, any town, by the views of two people, Mr Glees...
A film about two Finnish backpackers who work at a pub in the small mining town of Coolgardie, 500 km east of Perth. The documentary captures the humour, drama and challenges of life in the remote Australian outback, as well as the reactions of locals and critics.
Watch Hotel Coolgardie, a comedy series about the local men and two foreign female backpackers in a small Australian town. See ratings, reviews, trailers and more on Rotten Tomatoes.
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- Documentary
- Pete Gleeson
In remotest red-dust Australia is the sleepy mining town of Coolgardie. When two Finnish girls take jobs in the town’s only pub, they find themselves in a tr...
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Watch the trailer and read the reviews of this shocking and captivating film that follows two Finnish backpackers working as barmaids in a mining town. Hotel Coolgardie is a portrait of small town insularity, fragile masculinity and the plight of the outsider.
