Flirting
Australia
1991
99 Min
Color
English
Synopsis
Australian filmmaker John Duigan followed up his captivating The Year My Voice Broke with Flirting. Noah Taylor repeats his “Danny” characterization from the earlier film, while Thandie Newton plays a Ugandan exchange student who attends an Australian girls boarding school. Billeted at a nearby boy’s school, Danny finds himself falling in love with Newton, though he is frequently at a loss as to how to express himself. Flirting was the second in a proposed, never finished trilogy of John Duigan-directed films revolving around Danny’s “awkward” years. Featured in the cast as one of Newton’s schoolmates is Nicole Kidman.
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John Duigan
John Duigan, (born 19 June 1949 in Hampshire, England, UK) is an Australian film director. Duigan emigrated to Australia in 1961, having been born to an Australian father. He is related to many Australian performers, being the brother of Virginia Duigan (wife of director Bruce Beresford) and uncle of Trilby Beresford.
Duigan has directed 23 films, including Romero, Lawn Dogs, The Parole Officer, Sirens, and Head in the Clouds. He intended his magnum opus to be The Danny Embling Trilogy, three films centered around the character Danny Embling, an artistic youth growing up in 1960s Australia whose life is influenced by the socially changing world around him and a series of doomed love affairs. The first two films in the series were the critically acclaimed The Year My Voice Broke, and Flirting, both of which won the Australian Film Institute awards for best picture the years they were released.
Thandie Newton claims that Duigan forced her into a relationship with him that… read more
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By Rio Johan on December 1, 2010
Flirting is probably one of the school-themed movies that somewhat both daring and intelligent in discussing teenager sexual awakening. It was nice to see a film about the schoolgirl and schoolboy… read review
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