What a great idea: Australia by Baz Luhrmann turned into a miniseries. One of the most ridiculous films in history expanded and re-released in pieces. What a bad idea. And what a bad series.
Faraway Downsavailable on Disney +, is one of the most Martian television projects of the last times. So much so that I thought its existence was a joke. What need does anyone have to see again Australia? Did those responsible not have enough in 2009? 14 years later, Baz Luhrmann will have to read the same humiliating reviews from then… and some more.
On the other hand, Faraway Downs It makes some sense. It is nothing more than the reassembly of a material already filmed and post-produced. What if it finds a new audience now? It’s a kamikaze proposal, but we’ve seen stranger things. Spoiler: dirty evil.
At the time Australia she was considered a maximalist and histrionic idiocy. Two adjectives on which Baz Luhrmann has based a filmography with such powerful titles as red Mill o Elvis, but on that occasion they didn’t work. The ambitions of Great Australian Epic Movie of Australiathey stayed with that, with ambitions. Its protagonists, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, shortly after the premiere they stopped talking about her.
A couple of years after its highly touted launch, Australia had been conveniently forgotten. And in the well of oblivion she should have stayed. Luhrmann’s film is not The heaven’s Door o Blade Runner 2049. It is not a film of sufficient quality to be vindicated beyond its initial commercial failure. Already in 2009 Australia It was so bad that it wasn’t even worth joking about.. A Faraway Downs Exactly the same thing happens to you.