Despite the best cameo efforts of Dannii Minogue, Krew Boylan’s passion project is too frantic and narcissistic to convince
his Australian movie is a colourful comedy of romance and finding yourself, and it’s clearly a personal project for its writer-star Krew Boylan. I sat down to it hoping for something like Muriel’s Wedding, the film that first introduced us to Toni Collette but unfortunately, there’s something a bit frantic and narcissistic about it: a film that doesn’t quite convince you to care enough about its characters or what they care about.
Red, played by Boylan, is a young woman who is employed in an estate agent’s office and pretty hopeless at the job because, in her goofy and adorable way, her real passion is Dolly Parton: imitating her, studying her and obsessing over her. She’s also a bit self-conscious about being redheaded and flat-chested. But Red finds herself hanging out at a drag/impersonation club, presided over by “Elvis Presley” , where she gets to try out her Dolly act.
Everything seems to be going great. But this business of pretending to be someone or something you’re not: is it liberating and exciting? Or basically just a bit pathetic, no matter how technically good you are at it? This film doesn’t quite decide on an answer to that question and Red’s alternative role-model destiny of self-affirmation, perfunctorily unveiled just before the closing credits, is frankly unconvincing.
, playing a Dannii Minogue impersonator, but this is a film that is trying very hard to be liked, while at the same time complacently assuming its likeability is beyond question.
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