Sweet Country
After a conflict with a white man, an old farmer had to kill the man. The thing which puts his life at stake because killing a white man in this time is a serious crime. Now he is a wanted man to be hunted down.
28 September 1971, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
23 June 1947, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
27 July 1980
14 September 1947, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
22 June 1983, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
April 27, 2018
It's deliberately paced yet rewards patience, building to a resolution that's both harrowing and heartbreaking.
April 17, 2018
If the movie's outlook is less than hopeful, it nevertheless suggests that there is still time to learn from our mistakes.
April 05, 2018
While Sweet Country snakes along to an inevitable outcome, Thornton retains a sharp control over the movie's ravishing visuals, assembling them with a rhythmic quality that transcends any specific time and place.
April 23, 2018
As harshly beautiful as its landscape, this is a stark corrective to the American western it echoes, and a pragmatic confrontation with the deep, tenacious roots of modern racism.
May 22, 2018
A story of racism and violence, poetic, serene and full of fury. [Full review in Spanish]
May 16, 2018
Uncompromising, deliberate, and eerily beautiful, director Warwick Thornton's rugged Australian Western puts a new spin on an old story.
April 10, 2018
Australia now has its High Noon.
April 27, 2018
Altogether, Thornton's film is a moody and dark meditation -- a grim portrait of an Old West that will be both familiar and foreign to American audiences.
April 13, 2018
Thornton sets the stage carefully, sometimes snapping us into flashbacks and flash-forwards that only become clear the second time we see them.
April 06, 2018
A movie of visuals first and foremost.
April 20, 2018
It manages to be both timeless and perfectly of the moment.
April 07, 2018
Spare, deliberately paced, and almost Biblical in its search for moral justice in a harsh and lawless landscape.
