The Nightingale
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.
Cast
Aisling Franciosi
as Clare
Sam Claflin
as Hawkins
Baykali Ganambarr
as Billy
Damon Herriman
as Ruse
Harry Greenwood
as Jago
Ewen Leslie
as Goodwin
Charlie Shotwell
as Eddie
Michael Sheasby
as Aidan
Matthew Sunderland
as Davey
Magnolia Maymuru
as Lowanna
Reviews
SWITCH.
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 ...
Stephen Campbell
**_A superb, albeit harrowing drama about colonial violence, misogyny, and racism_** >_Whether the Blacks deserve any mercy at the hands of the pioneering squatters is an open question, but that they get none is certain. They are a doomed race, and before many years they will be completely wiped ...
Manuel São Bento
Jennifer Kent delivered one of the best horror movies of the decade, The Babadook. With The Nightingale, only her second feature film, she offers one of the most visually brutal, shocking, jaw-dropping, violent revenge stories ever. This movie is the definition of “not for everyone.” Rating: A-...
