Review Sweet Country (2018) April 6th

Doctor Omega

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“Sweet Country” Gets A Trailer & Standing Ovation


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Transmission Films has premiered the first trailer from Australian director Warwick Thornton’s latest film “Sweet Country” following its rousing reception at its world premiere, in competition, at the Venice Film Festival.

The outback Western is set in the Northern Territory of Australia in 1929 and follows an indigenous stockman turned fugitive (newcomer Hamilton Morris) after he kills a white station owner (Ewan Leslie) to protect a young boy. Sam Neil and Bryan Brown also star.

Thornton came to notoriety after winning the Camera d’Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for his debut “Samson and Delilah,” a tale of young love set in a desolate and remote Aboriginal community.

After a significant breath between films, Thornton has unleashed two films onto festival audiences in less than six months; “We Don’t Need A Map” an investigative, punk rock documentary about the Southern Cross’ iconography in Australia, opened the Sydney Film Festival in June this year.

“Sweet Country” follows an emerging tradition of Indigenous Australian filmmakers using the outback, as a substitute for the American Frontier, to explore contemporary issues of Australian identity and morality. It plays this Friday at the Toronto Film Festival and opens in Australian cinemas on October 17th. No word as yet on a U.S. release.



 

Doctor Omega

Member: Rank 10
U.S. Trailer: “Sweet Country”


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Not just the best western but arguably one of the best films to come out of Australia since “The Proposition” and “Mystery Road,” Warwick Thornton’s “Sweet Country” blends classic western and slave drama tropes with a dash of courtroom antics for a film that has won a slew of awards during its festival run.

Now it’s finally coming to the United States for a theatrical release with a Sundance Film Festival premiere ahead of opening in cinemas this spring. Set in Australia in 1929, the story involves a middle-aged Aboriginal man who goes on the run after killing a bitter and cruel war veteran in self-defence.

Now a wanted criminal for the murder of a white man, he is forced to flee into the beautiful but deadly outback as a hunting party is formed to track him down and bring him to justice. Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Hamilton Morris, and Ewen Leslie star/



 

Doctor Omega

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Sweet Country
Samuel Goldwyn Films has set an April 6th U.S. release date for Warwick Thornton’s acclaimed gritty Australian western meets slavery drama “Sweet Country” which currently boasts a stunning 97% & 8.7/10 on Rotten Tomatoes.

The film will initially debut in Los Angeles and New York and then roll out to 20 to 30 more screens across the country. Sam Neill, Bryan Brown and Matt Day star in the film set in 1929 and follows an Aboriginal man who goes on the run after killing a PTSD-ridden white brute in self-defense.
 
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