
Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-white, half-Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves." Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are fourteen, ten, and eight) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly's lead. For several days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eludin... (Full plot summary below)
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Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-white, half-Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves." Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are fourteen, ten, and eight) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly's lead. For several days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary. Their pursuers take orders from the government's "Chief Protector of Aborigines", A.O. Neville, blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view, and conventional wisdom. Can the girls survive?
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| San Francisco ChronicleJonathan CurielA breathtaking story of defiance and triumph that has to be considered one of the year's most sublime films. |
| Premiere MagazineGlenn KennyAs moving as it is hallucinatory, it's truly a journey through another world. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonThis isn't exactly an uplifting tale of the indomitability of the human spirit; rather, there are many heartbreaking moments, and the coda delivers an additional wallop. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. Means[The] young actresses ... depict these girls with strength and grace, and make their fight to survive and return to their families powerfully real. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn Johanson[Noyce] focuses on the literal heart of the issue and brings it to sad, authentic life in a way that transcends race, gender, and nationality. |
| Baltimore SunMichael SragowI love Rabbit-Proof Fence as drama, as protest, as moviemaking and as poetry. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyThis is a chase movie (Simon Legree after three Little Evas) across parched outback terrain, captured with rapturous authenticity by cinematographer Christopher Doyle. |
| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersEntering that austere pantheon of Australian outback classics like Walkabout and Picnic at Hanging Rock, Noyce's film is a profound wonder. |
| Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)Josh Larsen...dramatizes a staggering true story that would be hard to botch. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenThe final scene of the film contains an appearance and a revelation of astonishing emotional power; not since the last shots of "Schindler's List" have I been so overcome with the realization that real people, in recent historical times, had to undergo such inhumanity. |