Sweet Country
- 2017
- Australia
- 1h 53min
- 15
- Directed by: Warwick Thornton
- Cast: Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Hamilton Morris, Natassia Gorey Furber
- UK release: 9 March 2018
In 1920s Australia, Sam (Morris) is an aboriginal stockman whose wife Lizzie (Gorey Furber) is raped by a man he’s working for. Sam kills the man in self-defence, and he and Lizzie go on the run. A mesmerising meditation on race, class and political history, with intimate, natural performances from the indigenous, non-professional cast members. Understated, poetic and surprising.
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Sweet Country
5 Mar 2018
Mesmerising Australian western from Warwick Thornton which follows an Aboriginal couple on the run
The parched, searing landscape of the Australian outback is the ideal setting for a western, as anyone who saw John Hillcoat's The Proposition can attest. Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah) adroitly subverts the tropes of the genre to create a…
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