1929 Australia. A country still stretching out from settled cities into the lawless expanses of ‘the west, into territory held for tens of thousands of years by the original aboriginal inhabitants. Although Warwick Thornton’s SWEET COUNTRY has a lot in common with the American trope of ‘The Western,’ the particulars of Australian history enrich it
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Browsing: Australia
By Bears Fonte ...not really a great, ‘come-to-Australia’ tourism type film. Camping trip in a remote part of the Australian Outback, what could go wrong, right? When Ian (Ian Meadows) and Sam (Harriet Dyer) find they are not alone after coming upon an abandoned tent, the romantic getaway becomes a little more ominous. Played out
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