Not Drowning: 'Swimming Upstream'

'Swimming is the sport the rest of the world most closely associates with Australia. It has long held a privileged place within a national psyche fascinated by sporting heroics. Surprisingly, apart from a lacklustre Dawn Fraser biopic, there have been few attempts to capture this relationship on film.' Jeremy Ludowyke reviews 'Swimming Upstream' (Russell Mulcahy, 2003), a biopic of Tony Fingleton, a champion Australian swimmer of the 1960s.