My Brilliant Career (1979)
- Directed by
- Gillian Armstrong
- Genre
- drama film, comedy film, romance film, coming-of-age film
- Country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 78 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In rural Australia at the end of the 19th century, a young woman wants to be a writer. Her family's poverty and a growing romance with a local landowner threaten that ambition.
aspirationaldeterminedromanticperiodfrustratedthoughtfulbittersweetlyrical
What happens
My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Australian period drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill, and Wendy Hughes. Based on the 1901 novel of the same name by Miles Franklin, it follows a young woman in rural, late-19th-century Australia whose aspirations to become a writer are impeded first by her social circumstance, and later by a budding romance. Filmed in the Monaro region, New South Wales in 1978, My Brilliant Career was released in Australia in August 1979, and later premiered in the United States at the New York Film Festival. It received significant critical acclaim, and was nominated for numerous AFI Awards, winning three, while Davis won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In the United States, it received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film. Contemporarily, the film is regarded as being part of the Australian New Wave of cinema, as well as a piece of feminist cinema. In 2018, it underwent restoration by the Australian National Sound and Film Archive, and was issued on Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection the following year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Mismatch (1979)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.