Pawno

2015
1h 29m

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Follows one day in the life of 12 residents of a multicultural inner-city suburb of Melbourne, who all visit an ageing pawnbroker. Within a day, lives intersect and motives are examined.Follows one day in the life of 12 residents of a multicultural inner-city suburb of Melbourne, who all visit an ageing pawnbroker. Within a day, lives intersect and motives are examined.Follows one day in the life of 12 residents of a multicultural inner-city suburb of Melbourne, who all visit an ageing pawnbroker. Within a day, lives intersect and motives are examined.

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7.1/10

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Awards
- 2 wins & 18 nominations total

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Trivia
The pawn shop was a set built in a shop that was rented in the suburb of Footscray.

Connections
References Lassie (1954)

Soundtracks
Walk Away
Written by Tom Waits (as T. Waits) and Kathleen Brennan (as K. Brennan)
Performed by Tom Waits

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Featured review

10/10

A very special movie

Pawno is an exceptionally special movie, it is tragic in many ways, but also has some exceptionally light-hearted and quite funny moments throughout. It represents a day or so in the lives of those who visit pawn shops. Whilst set in Footscray, quite deliberately, it could be a pawn shop in other parts of Melbourne, or the world. The Footscray backdrops allows a slight investigation to the multicultural melting pot of the suburb.

Really most notably, and for those who are unaware of the Aussie film industry, was crowd funded, exceptionally low budget. However, I don't think this is obviously. I have watched so many ridiculous movies, lacking heart, or character development that had multi- million budgets. This film was crowd funded. So if anything, I think it's important to note this piece of really quite incredible Australian cinema, was the vision of someone who went about to create something and they succeeded. Certainly worth taking the time to enjoy!