
Sweet Country is set in 1929 in the outback of the Northern Territory. It is the story of a young boy called Philomac, who witnesses Sam, an Aboriginal stockman kill station owner Harry Marsh in self defense. Sam and his pregnant wife Lizzie go on the run and a posse pursues them across the outback.... (Full plot summary below)
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Sweet Country is set in 1929 in the outback of the Northern Territory. It is the story of a young boy called Philomac, who witnesses Sam, an Aboriginal stockman kill station owner Harry Marsh in self defense. Sam and his pregnant wife Lizzie go on the run and a posse pursues them across the outback.
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| Flicks.com.auBlake HowardWarwick Thornton's outback morality tale, Sweet Country, combines exquisite visuals of Australian landscapes with a script that dabbles as much in mythical justice as deeply specific ideas of what this country is made of. |
| Urban CinefileAndrew L. UrbanIt is, on any analysis, a simple story that is elevated by the way it is told...Although I can't say the film carried me away, I appreciate the sincerity and dedication of the filmmaking team |
| VarietyGuy LodgeThe spare, classical chase drama that ensues is seeded with barbed observations on colonialism, cultural erasure and rough justice, kept poetically succinct by Thornton’s lithe, soaring visual storytelling. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorThe story is both fresh and archetypal; the landscape both hard and delicate – and beautifully observed. Memories and premonitions are intriguingly inserted into the action and the performances...are note perfect. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawThis is fiercely powerful storytelling, simple and muscular in one way, but also conveying nuance and sophistication in its depiction of character. |
| The TelegraphRobbie CollinSweet Country is tough, spare and lyrical right down to the bone.... It is also a work of moral conscience that rules out easy answers, with acridly funny moments of black comedy and a sense of awesome natural spectacle that is inseparable from its dramatic impact. It has a power that makes the cinema shake. |
| Film InquiryDavid FontanaWith poignancy, grit, and proficiency, it gazes out at the vast Australian outback while also deeply examining the darkness of humanity within. |
| Sight and SoundJason AndersonSweet Country's complexity and sophistication mark it as a landmark work of Indigenous cinema. |
| Little White LiesAimee KnightA painfully real portrait of racism in Australia. |
| Herald Sun (Australia)Leigh PaatschThe superb new Australian drama Sweet Country does not so much open as immediately close in all around you. |