From: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Smash Palace: film from New Zealand
Article-I.D.: watcgl.242
Posted: Wed Mar  9 18:31:20 1983
Received: Thu Mar 10 04:19:30 1983

Speaking of films from "down under", I saw "Smash Palace" last night.
Well done, and very intense in places.  Review: (I didn't write it, but
I basically agree.)

A fluent, gripping account of marital break-up by a young New Zealand
director with an extremely bright future.  The story picks up eight
years into the marriage of a New Zealand scrap dealer and his French
wife, who is becoming disenchanted with her dreary life in the country.
The film evokes a sense of claustrophobia that reveals an acute
understanding of the way things feel when they begin to go wrong.
Highly recommended.
dir. by Roger Donaldson.  New Zealand 1981. 100 mins.