Sweet Country

 

Last updated 11/24/2018 at 5pm



Sweet Country is a ponderous, brutal, and powerful movie about life in the Australian Outback in the 1920s. It is a very fine piece of filmmaking that I recommend with caution: those who have experienced trauma will find plenty of triggers here. This is a tragedy. From the very beginning, there's a sense of dread hanging over every scene, a feeling that something bad will happen-it's inevitable, and no one can do anything about it. You almost don't want anything good to happen first, because it will just make it worse when the bad things happen.

Hamilton Morris stars as Sam Kelly a "black fell...



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