Streaming on Netflix - KYLIE (Dir: Michael Harte, Australia/UK, 2026, in three parts)

Charlie Schlatter, Kylie Minogue, The Delinquents

"Maybe I should go back to acting"....or something very similar is the absolutely only reference to the bits and pieces of film acting that Kylie Minogue has done over a forty year career in the three part three+ hour series currently screening on Netflix. 

It's not as if the series tries to avoid the many moments of mediocrity in her work. There's plenty of them in her singing career. So...mysterious. Did she not want to talk about her films or did the producers forget to ask the questions.

Her most notable appearance was in The Delinquents. There is an HD copy of the movie on YouTube if this has made you at all curious.

More recently the film's modest box office back in its day was used as the starting point of a piece by Brendan Swift published in Inside Film a couple of years ago about the vexed question of just how government intervention in the film industry should work. You can read the whole thing IF YOU CLICK HERE. I wont give any more away but my favourite paras in the story were these:

"Retired film distributor Alan Finney, who marketed many classic Australian films including Priscilla and Muriel’s Wedding, says the question of “who decides” which films receive government funding has always been a complicated question.

“One of the problems when you’ve got a small population and a small industry is the people who you appoint to make the decisions are either of two kinds,” he says.

“They’re either people who have never been in the industry and know nothing about it, and are therefore criticised for not being in touch with the key factors of decision-making, or they’re people that have been in the industry, and then the criticism is made that either they’ve got vested interests or they’re obviously failing in their job in the industry, which is why they’ve been appointed to the board of this state or federal funding body.”