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Oct 21, 2023 · Director Pete Gleeson provides a bare revelation about the Australian outback in his 2016 documentary film ‘Hotel Coolgardie.’ The movie is based in a small remote mining town of Coolgardie in Perth at the Denver City Hotel.
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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Hotel Coolgardie - Interview with director Pete Gleeson about his remarkably fly-on-the-wall documentary about two Finnish backpackers who, after being robbed of their savings in Bali, gets jobs...
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- Trailer Aims to 'Spark Attention'
- Not Flattering to Outback Says Stratton
- Reactions to Film
- Unique Character of Locals Attracted Filmmaker
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...
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- Nathan Morris,Rachel Day
Pete Gleeson is known for Hotel Coolgardie (2016), Enemy (2010) and Kill Me Three Times (2014).
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Jun 9, 2016 · Filmmaker Pete Gleeson says it will be up to audiences to determine whether sexism and harassment in "Hotel Coolgardie" paints an accurate picture of the town.
