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    Counter culture

    Dec 13, 2017 5 minutes
    Reviews by Kate Duncan, Danielle Kirk and Chris Staff ord

    DVDs

    Ali’s Wedding

    Directed by JEFFREY WALKER Starring OSAMAH SAMI, HELANA SAWIRES, DON HANY

    Chicken People

    Directed by NICOLE LUCAS HAIMES Starring BRIAN KNOX, BRIAN CARAKER, SHARI MCCULLOUGH

    Aussie multi-culti comedy has been a chancy genre so far, ranging from the sentimentality of the 1966 migrant movie They’re a Weird Mob to the rambunctious vulgarity of TV’s Fat Pizza and its ilk. That’s part of the reason Ali’s Wedding is such a nice surprise; in fact, it just might be the funniest, sweetest rom-com you’ll see all year.

    At its simplest, it’s also a movie about immigrants, based on Osamah Sami’s own story — slightly embroidered, one suspects, for comedy effect. He stars as Ali (or Charlie), the son of a Muslim cleric (Don Hany) who flees Ba’athist persecution in

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