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Apr 6, 2018 · Sweet Country. Drama. 110 minutes ‧ 2018. Glenn Kenny. April 6, 2018. 3 min read. It takes a while to fully register that this Australian Western is set in the late 1920s. There’s a lot of space in the Northern Frontier in which it is set, and it’s unsullied by telephone poles or power lines or railroad tracks.
Sweet Country makes brilliant use of the Australian outback as the setting for a hard-hitting story that satisfies as a character study as well as a sociopolitical statement. Read Critics...
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Sep 7, 2017 · Film Review: ‘Sweet Country’ Racial tension escalates to bushfire levels of danger and damage in Warwick Thornton's majestic Outback western.
Apr 6, 2018 · Set in frontier Australia in 1929, Sweet Country tells a simple story, one inspired by true events. When an Aboriginal man named Sam Kelly kills a white rancher in self-defense, he goes on the...
Warwick Thornton's outback morality tale, Sweet Country, combines exquisite visuals of Australian landscapes with a script that dabbles as much in mythical justice as deeply specific ideas of...
Sweet Country is a 2017 Australian drama film, directed by Warwick Thornton. Set in 1929 in the sparsely populated outback of the Northern Territory and based on a series of true events, it tells a harsh story against the backdrop of a divided society (between the British settlers and Aboriginal Australians ) in the interwar period in Australia.
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Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country is a scathing look at racism in Australia in the 1920s. The title seems ironic, as it is only uttered by the racist Sergeant Fletcher (Bryan Brown) who barely survives his sojourn into the wilderness pursuing Sam.
