Sweet Country

Indigenous actor Hamilton Morris is quietly magnificent in his first screen role.

Uncompromising, deliberate, and eerily beautiful, director Warwick Thornton's rugged Australian Western puts a new spin on an old story.

If the movie's outlook is less than hopeful, it nevertheless suggests that there is still time to learn from our mistakes.

Sweet Country shows that the Western is a genre of ideas that's as suitable to modernization in the northern Australian outback as in the ever-changing North American frontier.

Australia now has its High Noon.

Spare, deliberately paced, and almost Biblical in its search for moral justice in a harsh and lawless landscape.

The movie is a sincere work, with some remarkable performances, that centrally features Australia's parched, barren desert landscape.

From a beautiful, lyrical opening scene simply involving a dark bubbling pot and evocative audio to its devastating denouement, Warwick Thornton's Aussie western is a triumph of taut storytelling and visual flair.

The fourth feature by Australian filmmaker Thornton is not just the surprise of the week. It can even be the year, even though it has been released in our country with more than a year of delay. [Full review in Spanish]

Sweet Country is a powerful drama boasting strong performances, an engrossing story, and a viewing experience not easily shaken off.