Sneak Peek footage, plus images from "Sweet Country", the Australian-set dramatic feature directed by Warwick Thornton, set in 1929 starring Bryan Brown, Matt Day and Tremayne Doolan:
"...'Sam' is a middle-aged Aboriginal farmer in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory, sent by a preacher to help bitter war veteran 'Harry' help renovate the latter's cattle yards.
"But Sam's relationship with Harry quickly deteriorates, resulting in a deadly fight..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Sweet Country"...
"...'Sam' is a middle-aged Aboriginal farmer in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory, sent by a preacher to help bitter war veteran 'Harry' help renovate the latter's cattle yards.
"But Sam's relationship with Harry quickly deteriorates, resulting in a deadly fight..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Sweet Country"...
- 2/12/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
At the very end of Sweet Country, director Warwick Thornton’s stunning, somber outback western, an emotionally devastated cattle rancher played by the great Sam Neill offers two questions to the clouds: “What chance have we got? What chance has this country got?” It’s the sorrowful capper to a powerfully upsetting film. And it’s entirely fitting. Sweet Country is many things — a stark western, a gripping chase story, a tale of slavery and self-defense, and a searing drama in which the stakes are horrifically high.
Set in Australia’s Northern Territory in the late 1920s, the film is anchored by Hamilton Morris, a non-professional actor who gives a simple, tremendously engaging performance. Morris plays Sam Kelly, an aboriginal stockman who works for Neill’s Fred Smith. The latter is a vocal Christian and one of the few onscreen whites who does not openly discriminate. Thus he is the...
Set in Australia’s Northern Territory in the late 1920s, the film is anchored by Hamilton Morris, a non-professional actor who gives a simple, tremendously engaging performance. Morris plays Sam Kelly, an aboriginal stockman who works for Neill’s Fred Smith. The latter is a vocal Christian and one of the few onscreen whites who does not openly discriminate. Thus he is the...
- 1/20/2018
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
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