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Sweet Country
- 2018 ·
- grip me, enlighten me, tug my heartstrings ·
Summary:
An Australian 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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From Eric Kohn at IndieWire:
While Sweet Country snakes along to an inevitable outcome, Thornton retains a sharp control over the movie’s ravishing visuals, assembling them with a rhythmic quality that transcends any specific time and place. Full Review