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'How Willingly You Sing' is a 1975 low budget Australian feature film. It was shot over four weeks.[http://www.innersense.com.au/mif/tammer.html Peter Tammer biography at Melbourne Independent Filmmakers] accessed 5 October 2013

Premise



Simon Dore is a young a young architecture graduate who tries to find himself in society.

Cast



*Gary Patterson as Simon Dore

*Isaac Gerson

*Jim Robertson

*Jerry Powderly

*Morris Gradman

*Braham Glass

*Allan Levy

Production



Gary Patterson had just made 'Retreat Retreat'.

Patterson said "My movie doesn't really have an angle, its just sort of biographic in a way. Objectively biographical enough to interest other people. The only line that I think might be relevant is the one we approached before on humour and comedy."

Reception



'Filmnews' called it "an extraordinary film."

Colin Bennett of 'The Age' said it was " "crammed with marvellous ideas throwaway verbal gags and facetiousdialogue, diverting paradox and Lewis Carroll logic . . . Gary is really a one-man band: clown-mime, cartoonist, parable teller, ukelele strummer, as well as writer, director and editor with a well timed sense of the absurd."

Patterson said "The first third of the film is recognizable funny, cliched stuff, laugh inducing, structured comedy, and obviously the weakest. But thats alright, because its

autobiographic and representative of that old stvle of comedy I used to do on stage."

Melbourne Filmmakers Co-op were unhappy with the film's treatment in Sydney.

Awards



The film shared the award for creativity at the 1976 AFI Awards with 'Pure Shit'.

References




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