Sweet Country (2017)
- Directed by
- Warwick Thornton
- Genre
- drama film, Western film
- Country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 216 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
Set in the remote Australian outback in 1929, an Indigenous man kills a white settler in self-defense and goes on the run. The film follows his pursuit by a posse and the subsequent trial that exposes the racial tensions of the time.
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What happens
Sweet Country is a 2017 Australian revisionist Western drama film, directed by Warwick Thornton. Set in 1929 in the sparsely populated outback of Central Australia (before the formation 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 Anglo-Celtic Australians and Indigenous Australians) during the interwar period in Australia. It was first screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival in September 2017 and after winning the Special Jury Prize award there, went on to win several awards internationally. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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