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Siam Sunset

John POLSON

Australia1999 92min color

Synopsis

Perry? perfect life creating colors for an English paint company has become one of constant misfortune. He has a sense - very real as it happens - that he has become a plaything of the universe, the butt of some cruel cosmic joke. Wherever he goes, he attracts dangerous happenings which threaten him and anybody else who is unlucky enough to be nearby. However, Perry believes that a color he can ?ee?in his head might somehow bring about his salvation. That color is Siam Sunset.
With this in mind, he travels to Australia and embarks on the world? worst bus tour across the outback, reinforcing his dread that he is being drawn to a senseless demise. Into this madness walks Grace, a woman as menaced by the world as Perry. Her problems, though, take a more tangible form - a violent ex-lover who is prepared to pursue her to the end of the earth. After freak storms, sudden earth movements and other natural phenomena (by now commonplace for Perry), the bus makes one final unscheduled stop, leaving its exhausted crew stranded in a motel in the most desolate, unforgiving part of the Australian outback.
n this most unexpected of places, Perry and Grace finally begin to realize that if you?e skating on thin ice, you might as well dance. The decide to give life - and maybe love - another chance. But will the universe let them?

Diretor

John POLSON

He has been an actor and director since 1983. His acting career began in well-known Australian theaters such as the Nimrod Theatre and the Sydney Theatre company. He is acting in Mission Impossible II..
Films : Retirement (1988), What's Going on, Frank? (1995) (premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival)