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Suffused with generous humor and a youthful appetite for experience, my brilliant career is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit. Long unavailable in america, my brilliant career has been fully restored and remastered in high definition from the original negative, under the supervision of academy award nominated director of. I wanted to make the statement that the heroine is a full woman who can develop her talents and have a career. A young independent woman who lives with her grandmother and aunt in the countryside rebels against being pressured into marriage and chooses to solely focus on having a career as a writer. My brilliant career was the first film i saw when i moved to berkeley in 1980 to become a filmmaker, and it was certainly an inspiration. When i first watched this film in my teens, i thought sybylla was the most awesome character ever, even a role model, especially for the time and location depicted. My brilliant career is a 1979 australian period drama film directed by gillian armstrong, and starring judy davis, sam neill, and wendy hughes. Judy davis, sam neill, wendy hughes, robert grubb, gillian armstrong. National film and sound archive of australia nfsa 2,366 views. Kelvin davis full prematch press conference tottenham v. To be able to bring such characters to life and, more importantly to the screen, gave me hope that the art of cinema was still alive and well, despite the massive changes brought about in this country by. Henry lawsons preface to the novel, in which he talks about his ability to judge the painfully real depictions of bush life, versus his inability to comment on the girlishly. My brilliant career movie trailer blue underground youtube. My brilliant career movie trailer hd 1979 plot synopsis.

With judy davis, sam neill, wendy hughes, robert grubb. My brilliant career 1979 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. A scene from the nfsa restores digital restoration of my brilliant career 1979. My brilliant career is a 1901 novel written by miles franklin. Sybylla melbyn judy davis is the eldest daughter of an impoverished new. Released february 1st, 1980, my brilliant career stars judy davis, sam neill, wendy hughes, robert grubb the g movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 41 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. Winner of six australian academy awards, including best picture and best director this is the film that became a worldwide sensation and.

For her awardwinning breakthrough film, director gillian armstrong drew on teenage author miles franklins novel, a celebrated turnofthetwentiethcentury. My brilliant career marks the beginning of exactly that for both the film s daring, assured, highspirited australian director, gillian armstrong, and its rambunctious young star. Based on the 1901 novel of the same name by miles franklin, it follows a young woman in rural, late 19thcentury australia whose aspirations to become a writer are impeded first by her social circumstance, and later by a budding romance. The film charts the developing selfawareness of sybylla melvyn judy davis as she grows. My brilliant career marks the beginning of exactly that for both the films daring, assured. My brilliant career is a 1979 australian period drama film directed by gillian armstrong, and. My brilliant career movie trailer blue underground. My brilliant career 1979 i want to be a writer duration. It was written while she was still a teenager, as a romance to amuse her friends. Ms armstrong, after completing several more high quality films high tide in australia came to the us and was heralded as one of a wave of. For her awardwinning breakthrough film, director gillian armstrong drew on teenage author miles franklins novel, a celebrated turnofthetwentiethcentury australian comingofage story, to brashly.