| Cinemark | Sweet Country is a 2017 Australian meat pie Western drama film, directed by Warwick Thornton.Set in 1929 in the sparsely populated outback of the Northern Territory and based on a series of true events, it tells a harsh story against the backdrop of a divided society (between the European settlers and Aboriginal Australians) in the interwar period in Australia.

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The predictability of this story underlines artistically what lies in the DNA of the country. Uncompromising, deliberate, and eerily beautiful, director Warwick Thornton's rugged Australian Western puts a new spin on an old story.

Plus, the Indigenous style of telling is possessed of a great quick wit, a sure dart of communication, that gets you before you know it's coming. Warwick Thornton’s Australian period drama Sweet Country ends with a character asking the rhetorical question, “What chance has the country got?” before the film closes on the image of an Aboriginal teenage boy.Viewers will know the answer already if they have seen Thornton’s Samson and Delilah (2009), a bleak but not hopeless drama which tells us what …

| The film is having its Australian premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival just as its director Warwick Thornton's previous and first dramatic feature film Samson and Delilah (2009) had done in 2009.
March 23, 2019 | By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie.Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow moviegoers.They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating.They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. Indigenous people made this film and the Indigenous actors here, while their film acting is superbly fluid and transparent, are not just acting. Sweet Country is a slow-burn venture in the right way, that makes some odd stylistic choices which perhaps would have better served a different sort of movie.



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It takes a while to fully register that this Australian Western is set in the late 1920s. The landscape and the dwellings are unremittingly harsh, with one exception - the stock horses looked like show specimens. Warwick Thornton's outback morality tale, Sweet Country, combines exquisite visuals of Australian landscapes with a script that dabbles as much in mythical justice as deeply specific ideas of what this country is made of.
April 17, 2018 Steven McGregor (screenplay by) That is a testament to the Indigenous survival. But as the true details of the killing start to surface, the community begins to question whether justice is really being served.

We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Theater box office or somewhere else There’s a lot of space in the Northern Frontier in which it is set, and it’s unsullied by telephone poles or power lines or railroad tracks. As such it is a most important document.

Synopsis. Fantastic performances by all the cast, this is a very fine example of Australian film.