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When Australian New Wave motion pictures burst on to world movie theater screens in the 1970s, sceptical audiences were initially baffled by the broad accents and peculiar colloquialisms.

Sunday Too Far Away, a renowned tale about male culture and loyalty in a 1950s shearing shed, was the first big hit of Australia's golden age of movie theater however Americans were particularly bewildered by it, producer Matt Carroll keeps in mind.

"They recognised that Sunday was a fantastic film but they didn't comprehend it," he says.

"It was pretty incomprehensible to anybody who wasn't an Australian. At American screenings, you may also have had it in Dutch."

But French audiences were even more inviting of the movie at Cannes Directors Fortnight, thanks to the wife of an Adelaide vehicle dealership who 'd sold Carroll a Peugeot.

"She stated, 'oh yes beloved, I know Parisian street slang, I'll equate everything for you (into subtitles)'," Carroll continues.

"I keep in mind being in the cinema and the very first thing that comes up is someone in the shearing shed says about the squatter, 'his shit doesn't stink'. When it was equated, the Parisian slang for that is 'he farts above his asshole'."

In the huge screening room, "the entire audience simply went nuts, definitely insane, and we got a substantial sale to France", Carroll laughs.

"It's the language of the bush," explains legendary Australian actor Jack Thompson, who represented the hard-drinking gun shearer, Foley.

"There's a fantastic friendship expressed in that movie. Sunday states something much more extensive about the Australian character than a variety of other films that examined our victories and failures."

Thompson, who left home at 14 to work as a jackaroo in the NT, says "it was like a journal, it was simply how people behaved - I keep in mind, since as a teenager, I remained in those sheds.

"Sunday Too Far Away has a truly essential part in my career and in my memory