Feels like a nightmare captured in real time. Situated 558 kilometres east of Perth, it was once the state's third-largest town. "Then there's leaving the ball in the court of the audience. If you ever want to step into the shoes of women (as much as can be done by watching a film) and experience the visceral discomfort of cringe men flirting with you and making you feel unsafe in a hellish-A&E style reality TV documentary, this is the movie for you. At one point the girls are shown a photo album full of naked former-bartenders— the pub has a three-month staff turnover, by the way. Please sign in to contribute to the Mamamia Community. Despite all these creatures there was also one or one gem: the Can Man, a troubled but extremely kind older man, who took the girls under his (very smelly) wings. In remotest red-dust Australia is the sleepy mining town of Coolgardie. I was prepared to be shocked and appalled. "If we have sex it will be bad but it will be very quick," one bar-fly proffers. People barely took any notice of us. Endearing leads and some fun moments but this gets pretty heavy. I've never experienced more cultural cringe regarding my own country (and my home state) in my whole life. Cor.... that's gonna haunt me for a while. They knew how to navigate that culture. 3.24. Publican Pete rules Coolgardie's Denver City Hotel. Horrifying. The sexual frustration and rampant sexism holds an unease over the whole documentary. Speaking down the phoneline from the more salubrious surroundings of a rain-swept Sydney, he says he was particularly impressed by the fact she admitted that watching left her "waking up at 3am, feeling anxious". As disturbing and hard to watch as it was at times it was worth it to see how kind and sweet Canman (John Joseph Lowe) was. The documentary fluctuates from moments of raucous laughter at the inappropriate, yet mostly harmless throwaway lines directed at the barmaids, to cringe worthy scenes where the line between acceptable behaviour and sexual and physical harassment are not simply blurred, but crossed. 'If we had been in a better economic situation, we would have left the same day we arrived in Coolgardie,' she told Brag magazine. We're guessing Lina won't be making a return visit. Refreshing New Sounds with Kupka’s Piano: Review, Fan Girl Returns with ‘backwards (everything is)’, Kupka’s Piano Explore New Sounds at Brisbane Music Festival. "The hotel is only a half-hour drive from what, up until a few years ago, used to be the 'skimpy' [barmaids wearing lingerie] capital of Australia.". We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Source: Hot Docs. "Some of them laugh all the way through it, while others have been a bit fearful that it is going to paint the town in a bad light. There were men who had arrived there via backstories that were quite interesting and everytime I popped in there, there were new barmaids from another part of the world. But today, the more I think about it, and the more it sinks in, the more I have to say about it. The two girls set out to walk to their new workplace, unaware that they will be regarded as 'fresh meat' and fair game for any man in town who wants to sleep with them, The ladies have a drink together while in the bar of the Denver City Hotel in Coolgardie, It's a very male dominated environment, but the women townsfolk seemed to hold their own in the bar. After being robbed in Bali, Finnish backpackers Stephie and Lina find themselves desperate for cash in Perth (never a good position to be in). 01 00 53 14. Gleeson, whilst attempting not to interfere with the protagonists during filming could not escape the necessity to intervene during his time on the camera. I couldn't stop crying I was so upset to hear that. Mostly hands-off documentary style that just feels like you're there, hanging out with them as they try to survive their contracts. Hotel Coolgardie is Pete Gleeson†s documentary about two Finnish backpackers, Lina and Stephie, and their experience with the Coolgardie locals and an outback pub. In the post screening Q&A session Gleeson described having to relocate himself and the camera to ensure the locals did not physically cross any lines with the Finnish backpackers. Gleeson felt uncomfortable at times during filming however believed the presence of the camera, rather than the film crew, took the heat out of many confronting situations of inebriated locals and their interactions with the barmaids. He was just plain obnoxious, and scary, which is why no sane woman would want to be with him, and when he had the gall to go upstairs to the girls' 'quarters', when Lina was taken so ill, and had the nerve to try to get her to let him stay and sleep in her bed with her was shocking. It's basically a movie so dark that your only light moments are when you're rolling your eyes at the men who Lina and Steph have to pretend to listen to." Sometimes amusing, often confronting, the film has been applauded for its no-holds-barred, fly-on-the-wall storytelling, as it explores hot-button themes around misogyny and xenophobia via its depiction of two women attempting to adapt to living and working in a hyper-masculine, foreign environment. Video availability outside of United Kingdom varies. The main thing though is that we were there by the graces of the owner. Every (literally) knows each other, and if you arn't a miner, then your'e a farmer, or a backpacker. On a dusty highway somewhere between Perth and Western Australia’s largest gold mines lies Coolgardie, a tiny outback town with with pub and, seemingly, not a whole lot else. Report this film, Strong contender for the most bizarre and upsetting postscript of all time. Described as “a nightmare version of Cheers” (POV Magazine) and “one of the most captivating Australian documentaries in recent memory” (Cinema Australia), HOTEL COOLGARDIE is a gripping portrait of outback Australia, as experienced by two ill-fated backpackers who find themselves the latest batch of “fresh meat” to work as barmaids in a remote mining town.
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