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Synopsis: Raimond Gaita (1946 - ) comes of age in Frogmore, Victoria in the early 1960s. His parents are immigrants: his Romanian father farms; his German mother, Christina, estranged from Romulus, is in Melbourne. Romulus is near despair when she takes up with the brother of his best friend, who suggests he send for a new wife from back home. For Rai, poverty, bruises, and the mysterious ways of adults compete with his longing for a stable home and his own incipient puberty. Love and madness lie in the same bed. As an old woman tells Rai, "Sometimes what you reckon and what you get ain't the same thing."
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Richard Roxburgh
Actors: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Marton Csokas, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  10 wins & 23 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
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Year:
2007
104 min
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What are you doing?

Nothing.

Come on. Give me a hand.

Can I go to the movies?

We've got work to do.

Aw.

You'll be measured as a man

by your work,

not by the movies you see.

A man's work is his dignity.

Come on.

Hey!

Papi!

Who's she?

Raimond, give me that.

Why has she written you letters?

Go home.

Why is she sending you kisses?

I said go home, Raimond! Now.

Cheeky little bugger.

MUSIC PLAYS LOUDLY

SONG:
#Got the jive,

got the message Im alive

#Im a wild, Im a wild one

#Ooh, yeah, Im a wild one

#Im gonna keep a-shakin'

Im gonna keep a-movin', baby...#

Turn it off!

(Turns music up louder)

(Turns off power)

You don't love Muti

and you don't love me!

Never believe that I don't love you.

(Squawks)

Surprise.

Oh, happy birthday, darling.

Happy birthday.

Muti, my birthday's not till Sunday.

Oh, well, it's nice to be early.

We get to spend some time together.

Hmm? Mwah!

Where's Susan?

She's at home with Mitru.

Is everything alright, darling?

Yep.

So everything's really alright?

Cristal.

My love.

Oh!

Can I give you a hand with all that?

No, thank you.

Everything's under control.

Imagine, in America

they have machines,

labour-saving devices

to do these things.

Still, we settled for here.

And here we are.

There's more to life than cooking.

Raimond was conceived in a graveyard

and look at him. Full of life.

(All crunch their food)

It's delicious.

Y... Mmm.

No peeking.

There we are.

You spelled my name wrong.

Oh, sorry. (Laughs)

It's R-A-l.

(Christina sings in German)

(Trails off singing)

Happy birthday, darling.

Now you can blow out the candles.

And make a wish.

And don't tell anyone what you wish.

Or it will never come true.

Muti! What are you doing?

KNOCK AT DOOR:

(Knocks louder)

Do you want a cup of tea?

Muti?

(Panicked) Papi!

Papi!

What's the matter?

What's the matter?

Arghh!

What's wrong with her?

How many you take?

How many you take?

How many? How many you take?

OK, stay with your mother.

Talk to her.

Don't let her go to sleep, OK?

Where are you going?

Talk to her, don't let sleep, OK?!

Keep talk.

Muti.

RAIMOND:
Um...once upon a time,

a time...

..a long time ago...

Wake up!

..there was a tree.

It had leaves

and they were all new and green.

It had...silver branches

and a bird would come every day

and sing in the tree.

It would sing and sing and sing.

It was...it was a bloody good singer,

this bird,

but...but it was only small and brown

and...and then this woman,

this beautiful woman

used to come and listen to it

and...and...um...and...

..and they were very happy.

And that's the end of the story.

Muti, are you awake?

Open your eyes!

Muti! Muti!

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