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SXSW Film Review: Gracie Otto’s ‘Seriously Red’

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“We need more Dollys in the world,” is the message of this raucous but hugely enjoyable comedy, which, at the same time, reminds us that there is—and can only be—one Dolly Parton.

The 76-year-old country legend is having quite a moment at SXSW this year, arriving at the festival with a concert to promote her new album (and novel) Run, Rose, Run and her online NFT project Dollyverse, while riding a wave of public goodwill after her philanthropic support of the Covid vaccine with a $1 million donation.Surprisingly, despite its subject’s bona fides as an all-time American icon, Seriously Red hails from Australia, the country that gave us Strictly Ballroom (1992) and The Sapphires (2012).

The residual influence of both films can be felt here, but the template has to be P.J. Hogan’s seminal Muriel’s Wedding, which made a star of Toni Collette in 1994.

Directed by Gracie Otto, sister of actress Miranda and a prolific director of docs, Seriously Red could work similar wonders for star/writer Krew Boylan, whose anarchic screen presence recalls Grease-era Stockard Channing and a younger Catherine O’Hara.Boylan plays Raylene ‘Red’ Delaney, a chaotic redhead and Dolly Parton fan who works for a real-estate company as an evaluator, alongside her childhood friend Francis (Thomas Campbell).

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