Australia (2008)
Country: US/AUS/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 165m
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil
Synopsis:
To the Northern Territory before the war in the Pacific an aristocratic lady travels to bring her husband home, but finds him dead with a spear in his back. Thus begins an epic tale of adversity overcome, as she resurrects the ranch he was running, gets the cattle to Darwin to break the wicked baron's monopoly, falls for the drover, and rescues a half-caste aboriginal boy from imprisonment in a Catholic mission.
Review:
Another post-modern soup of a film from Luhrmann, who this time seems not only to have his tongue in his cheek but to have taken leave of his senses. Thus we look on bewildered past a rapid-fire exposition and picture book CGI at striking echoes of Gone with the Wind, Red River, The Sundowners, Walkabout, Rabbit-Proof Fence and even Pearl Harbour. What he seems to have had in mind is some kind of lionization of a country, embracing the much maligned aborigine in the process. It is at times surprisingly good fun, but in the acting stakes the aborigines win hands down.
Country: US/AUS/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 165m
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil
Synopsis:
To the Northern Territory before the war in the Pacific an aristocratic lady travels to bring her husband home, but finds him dead with a spear in his back. Thus begins an epic tale of adversity overcome, as she resurrects the ranch he was running, gets the cattle to Darwin to break the wicked baron's monopoly, falls for the drover, and rescues a half-caste aboriginal boy from imprisonment in a Catholic mission.
Review:
Another post-modern soup of a film from Luhrmann, who this time seems not only to have his tongue in his cheek but to have taken leave of his senses. Thus we look on bewildered past a rapid-fire exposition and picture book CGI at striking echoes of Gone with the Wind, Red River, The Sundowners, Walkabout, Rabbit-Proof Fence and even Pearl Harbour. What he seems to have had in mind is some kind of lionization of a country, embracing the much maligned aborigine in the process. It is at times surprisingly good fun, but in the acting stakes the aborigines win hands down.
Country: US/AUS/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 165m
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil
Synopsis:
To the Northern Territory before the war in the Pacific an aristocratic lady travels to bring her husband home, but finds him dead with a spear in his back. Thus begins an epic tale of adversity overcome, as she resurrects the ranch he was running, gets the cattle to Darwin to break the wicked baron's monopoly, falls for the drover, and rescues a half-caste aboriginal boy from imprisonment in a Catholic mission.
Review:
Another post-modern soup of a film from Luhrmann, who this time seems not only to have his tongue in his cheek but to have taken leave of his senses. Thus we look on bewildered past a rapid-fire exposition and picture book CGI at striking echoes of Gone with the Wind, Red River, The Sundowners, Walkabout, Rabbit-Proof Fence and even Pearl Harbour. What he seems to have had in mind is some kind of lionization of a country, embracing the much maligned aborigine in the process. It is at times surprisingly good fun, but in the acting stakes the aborigines win hands down.