"Doing Time For Patsy Cline was a deliberate puzzle box of a movie. I didn't expect everyone to piece it together, but I hoped everyone would
at least get it on a reflex level and enjoy it".
Chris Kennedy
Writer, Director and Producer.
"The cleverest thing about Doing Time For Patsy Cline is that, as with lots of relationships, it's really two things at once. The film you watch, and then the one you understand...when it's all over".
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Ruth Hessey
Metro Section,
Sydney Morning Herald
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Doing Time For Patsy Cline is a deceptively richly layered film, its seemingly simple structure belying the depth and subtlety of its subject matter. It is, more properly, three interwoven films (or rather at least three interwoven films).
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Ben Goldsmith
The Review
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"Doing Time For Patsy Cline is a delightfully unpredictable comedy, a toe-tapping celebration of country-and-western music with charm to burn. It will steal your heart".
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Suzanne Weiss
Contemporary World Cinema
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"Doing Time For Patsy Cline is such a feel good film, so engagingly played and shot that you leave the cinema wanting to join the next line dance".
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Margaret Pomeranz
The Movie Show, SBS
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"The thing most enjoyable about the film is the flashbacks to and from Nashville, Tennessee. These show Ralph's thoughts and dreams as he imagines what might happen in the future".
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Letters to the Editor
Cinema Papers
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The great strength of Kennedy's feature is the way he expertly weaves fact and fiction. Moving seamlessly between past, present and future, Kennedy creates a fictional world in which dream and reality become one".
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Barbara Creed
The Age
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"Trust the Australians to make a winsome, witty comedy about the road to Nashville.
While the path may be a familiar one, Kennedy has thrown in enough unexpected potholes and sudden turns to keep it all fresh. There's a lot of quirk in the twang".
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Michael Rechtshaffen
www.hollywoodreporter.com
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"An admirable attempt to mix character, genre and classic storylines into an entertaining brew".
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Monica Zetlin
Cinema Papers
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"Doing Time For Patsy Cline represents a blend of the tried-and-tested road movie storyline with innovative cinematic techniques and a will to bridge generic conventions... The clever combination of all of these elements, while avoiding excess in any area, has allowed Kennedy to compose a visually stunning work that is as powerful, relentless and moving as the country itself".
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Joshua Smith
Oz Cinema
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"Happily, Doing Time avoids sentimentality almost entirely and is time well spent in a cinema, with a film that will have universal appeal".
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Julian Lewis
Rythms
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Kennedy suffuses the film with a generous streak of droll humour, and he also manages to wring some hilarious moments of slapstick comedy out of the activities of Ralph's parents ( Annie Byron and Roy Billing ), as they await word from their son. One of the main strengths of this charming film is that Kennedy explores universal themes, and Doing Time For Patsy Cline's appeal is not merely limited to fans of country music.
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Greg King
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"Kennedy has made the kind of film which works on a subliminal level. If you like it, it's possibly because it reminds you of something else."
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Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
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"Stylistically, "Doing Time For Patsy Cline" suggests a country music ballad. It's brightly hued and heavily freighted with icons and raw sentiment and drenched in country music's unique theatricality and imagery".
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James Verniere
Boston Herald
