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The Nightingale
The Nightingale

7.0

The Nightingale

R·2018·136m

Summary

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

Crew

Director, Writer

Jennifer Kent

Script Editor

Lynne Vincent McCarthy

Reviews

maketheSWITCH

maketheSWITCH

June 14, 2019

6

Even with its flaws, this feminist Western is too violent, too dirty, too bloody, and too barbaric to be forgotten easily. When the lights in the cinema came on, the woman next to me was crying and, a few rows over, someone murmured that they had now had PTSD. 'The Nightingale’ is not an easy film to watch and certainly not one to expect to come out of laughing or feeling terrific. But it will make you will feel something, which is a rare thing for a film to be able to do today. - Jake Watt

Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-the-nightingale-a-blunt-and-brutal-period-piece

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Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$855,756.00

Keywords

australia
rape
revenge
murder
brutality
racial prejudice
rape and revenge
woman director
australian aboriginal
tasmania
19th century
aborigine
colonization