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.
Aisling Franciosi
Clare
Sam Claflin
Hawkins
Baykali Ganambarr
Billy
Damon Herriman
Ruse
Harry Greenwood
Jago
Ewen Leslie
Goodwin
Charlie Shotwell
Eddie
Michael Sheasby
Aidan
Matthew Sunderland
Davey
Magnolia Maymuru
Lowanna
Christopher Stollery
Major Bexley
Nathaniel Dean
Stoakes
Claire Jones
Harriet
Dallas Mugarra
Lowanna's Husband
Sam Smith
Sheep Farmer
Ben McIvor
Dull Convict
Anthony Phelan
Trader
Maggie Blinco
Old Woman
Alan Faulkner
Old Man
James O'Connell
Escaped Convict
Luke Carroll
Archie
Charlie Jampijinpa Brown
Uncle Charlie
Eloise Winestock
Luddy
Huw Higginson
Magistrate
Breanna Geer
Launceston Townfolk
Director, Writer
Jennifer Kent
Script Editor
Lynne Vincent McCarthy
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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