The Plumber

Originally made for television before being released in cinemas, this biting and unpredictable social satire keeps viewers guessing to the end.

  • Director

    Peter Weir

  • With

    Ivar Kants, Judy Morris, Robert Coleby

  • Australia 1979. 76min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    12A

Spending most of her days alone at home while her husband is away at work, a young anthropology student is troubled by repeated visits from her building’s gregarious repairman. Class conflict is fought through polite insults, perverse mind games and ever-expanding plumbing work in this dark, absurdist comedy of manners. At once tense and funny, The Plumber is an acerbic critique of bourgeois hypocrisy and intolerance that sits on the cusp between art house cinema and Ozploitation fare.

The screening of The Plumber on Thursday 9 April will include a discussion about Peter Weir as an Australian director with academic Dr Stephen Morgan and film critic Tim Robey, hosted by season curator Elena Lazic.

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