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Sweet Country: Directed by Warwick Thornton. With Hamilton Morris, Shanika Cole, Ewen Leslie, Sam Neill. Western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
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- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Warwick Thornton
- 2018-04-06
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.
80 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. a visually stunning outback tale with a message that resonates today. CineMuseFilms 23 January 2018. Using the Hollywood label 'western' for an Australian outback drama casts an odd cultural shadow over the achievements of Sweet Country (2017).
Sep 7, 2017 · Film Review: ‘Sweet Country’. Racial tension escalates to bushfire levels of danger and damage in Warwick Thornton's majestic Outback western. By Guy Lodge. Courtesy of Bunya Productions.
Sweet Country is epic and personal, daring to tell a simple story in a challenging, arresting way. It’s a demanding two hours but leavened by great performances, especially from newcomer Hamilton Morris.
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.
Apr 6, 2018 · Movie review of Sweet Country (2017) by The Critical Movie Critics | Australian western sees a posse hunting for an Aboriginal man who shot a white man in self defense.
