Party piece with moving story to tell - Australia

Brisbane Times

'WE DON'T often have film premieres at the Austin Hospital,'' said Professor Bob Jones, introducing a new documentary, The Dinner Party. Actor David Wenham was on hand; so was the film's director, veteran Melbourne filmmaker Paul Cox, and the cast members.

But this is a movie with a difference. Cox's hour-long documentary is the record of an ordinary event - a group of people talking and sharing a meal - with an extraordinary context.

The five men and three women at the dinner table - including Cox - have all been patients at the Austin, where Jones is director of the liver transplant unit.Most of them met for the first time that night, but The Dinner Party captures a relaxed intimacy, as they share candid, thoughtful, wry and revealing reflections about what they went through.

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