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Australian Films
10/6/2005 15:23

THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY DOCTOR
Synopsis: Gary Kelp is haunted by the recent memory of his father¡¯s death. Back at work for an organization called the Info Digest, Gary stares at his new task¨Chideous flesh, goiters, tumors and diseased monstrosities¨Cimages from The Illustrated Family Doctor, a medical guide Gary is condensing. This work begins to infiltrate his life in strange and mysterious ways, and Gary realizes he is no longer just the sum of all parts.

LOVE'S BROTHER
Synopsis: LOVE¡¯S BROTHER is a story about that strange and wonderful thing called Fate, the name we give to those unexpected events in Life which mock the finest intentions and often leave the best laid plans in tatters. Set in rural Australia and Italy in the 1950¡¯s, this bitter-sweet comedy revolves around the story of two brothers and the bride who¨Cas Fate would have it¨Carrives from Italy betrothed to one yet falls madly in love with the other.
The brothers could not be more dissimilar. GINO is handsome, brash and impulsive; ANGELO, the older by a year, is staid, shy and conservative. If they have one thing in common however, it¡¯s their fierce loyalty to one another. Suffering in silence after another attempt to procure a bride has failed, the luckless ANGELO decides to try one more time. But in a fit of heartache, instead of sending a photo of himself, he sends one of his more handsome brother GINO, hoping to improve his chances in marriage. When the beguiling, Mona-Lisa like ROSETTA arrives in Australia from her small village in Southern Italy, what she finds is that the ANGELO who greets her at the docks is not the same ANGELO as in the photograph. The ANGELO whose image she has grown to love with the help of her wonderfully vivid imagination. When ROSETTA¡¯S sense of adventure in coming to a new country is damped, her spirit and imagination are not, trusting always that the destiny which brought her here has already decided that GINO will be her husband.
But it is ROSETTA, ANGELO and GINO who drive the story as they struggle to try to resolve this awkward imbroglio without hurting one another¡¯s feelings. Remarkably in the end, all it takes is the power of love and a little bit of magic to make them realize that destiny always has its way.



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