The Nightingale (2018)
First screened in November 2019
Director: Jennifer Kent. Cast: Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr, Sam Claflin, Michael Sheasby, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Charlie Jampijinpa Brown, Ewen Leslie, Charlie Shotwell, Magnolia Maymuru, Matthew Sunderland. Screenplay: Jennifer Kent. Twitter Capsule:
Conceptually bold colonial mashup of True Grit and Ms. 45, but cast, script, editing, images could all be sharper.
VOR:③
Admirable incorporation of anticolonial sentiment, albeit ungainly in trying to graft that politics onto a feminist idea. Predictable in many ways.
