'Swinging Safari' takes us back to a beachside Central Coast Australian town in the 1970s. Three families living in a cul-de-sac are enjoying their Australian summer, spent around the beach and their backyards and, in the case of the parents, in their sunken lounge rooms eating Fondues and wildly entering into the fad of their time; swapping partners.
The film is to be congratulated for featuring either by mention or appearance countless curiosities from those days which are now a distant memory; if remembered at all. On the negative side the behaviour of almost every character takes the sense of uncouth and unsophisticated behaviour into (or should that be down to) a level scarcely imaginable; and for overseas viewers completely mystifying.
The Director, Stephan Elliott, has some history in this style of cinema having also directed 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' and 'Welcome to Woop Woop' but whereas characters behaving badly were nonetheless likeable in 'Priscilla' I cannot say the same for the characters in 'Safari'.
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