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    THE NIGHTINGALE

    Aug 04, 2019 3 minutes
    TRAVIS JOHNSON

    ★★★★★ OUT 29 AUGUST / 136 MINS / RATED TBC

    DIRECTOR Jennifer Kent

    CAST Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, Ewen Leslie

    PLOT Tasmania, 1825: As the British wage war on the Indigenous population, Irish convict Clare (Aisling Franciosi) hires Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), an Indigenous tracker, to help her hunt down the British officer, Hawkins (Sam Claflin), responsible for a horrific act of violence against her family.

    IS not is redolent with mournful sorrow and John Hillcoat’s is a savagely violent anti-Western, neither can match the sheer, relentless rage that animates director Jennifer Kent’s bleak drama. Hers is a film that seeks not to entertain the viewer, but to punish, holding us accountable for our complicity in atrocity both historical and contemporary, racist and misogynist.

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