Awards
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Sleath, E. (2018). Local cast and crew get a preview of award-winning movie Sweet Country. Retrieved February 18, 2018, from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-21/cast-and-crew-get-a-preview-of-celebrated-movie-sweet-cou
More than 300 members of the cast and crew, and their families, have packed into the Alice Springs Cinema for a special cast preview of new feature film Sweet Country.
Warwick Thornton
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Filming Aboriginal Australia. (n.d.). Warwick Thornton. Retrieved February 18, 2018, from http://filmingaboriginaltourism.com/the-directors/warwick-thornton/
Warwick Thornton is an award-winning Indigenous director, screenwriter and cinematographer.
Born and raised in Alice Springs he spent his teens working at CAAMA radio station before perfecting his trade as a cinematographer at AFTRS film school in Sydney for three years. -
Imdb. (n.d.). Warwick Thornton. Retrieved February 18, 2018, from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861610/
Warwick Thornton is a cinematographer and director, known for Samson and Delilah (2009), Green Bush (2005) and Sweet Country (2017).
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Sales, L. (2017). Warwick Thornton discusses his new film, an Australian western called Sweet Country. [ABC].
Warwick Thornton discusses his new film, an Australian western called Sweet Country
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ABC Premium News. (2018). Indigenous Director Warwick THornton invites Australia to learn more about its history on Jan26. In [ABC Premium News]
"I don't like films that just let you dribble and you know who's going to win and what's going to happen" he says. It's no wonder then that his latest film is, at times, hard to watch. Released nationally on the eve of Australia Day, Sweet Country is a historical epic that riffs on the western genre, set against the stark and sublime landscape that surrounds Alice Springs.
Reviews
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Bradshaw, P. (2017). Sweet Country review – brutal Australian western soars with Biblical starkness. Retrieved February 18, 2018, from https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/15/sweet-country-review-brutal-australian-western-tiff
The latest film from Warwick Thornton possesses both shocking cruelty and haunting beauty with its tragic tale of tensions in the outback
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McGregor, S., & Tranter, D. (2018). Sweet Country. Retrieved February 18, 2018, from https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sweet_country_2017/
Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighbouring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards.
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Rosso, J. (2018). Samson and Delilah director tackles the Western in powerful new film. Retrieved February 18, 2018, from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-17/sweet-country-review-warwick-thorton-tackles-the-western
Sweet Country review: Warwick Thornton tackles the Western in ambitious new narrative feature
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McDonald, J. (2018). Film review: Sweet Country. Retrieved February 18, 2018, from http://www.afr.com/lifestyle/arts-and-entertainment/film-and-tv/film-review-sweet-country-20180121-h0lzfz
Sweet Country is Warwick Thornton's contribution to the Australia Day debate. It's an issue that returns every year with growing force as left-wing moralism locks horns with the forces of right-wing populism.
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ABC Premium News (N.D.). Sweet Country Premiere for proud and excited local cast draws star and families to Alice Springs. in [ABC Premium News]
More than 300 members of the cast and crew, and their families, have packed into the Alice Springs Cinema for a special cast preview of new feature film Sweet Country.
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Ladera, C. (2017). at the movies. Sweet Country. In Lamp, 74(11), 49.
Not so black and white Sweet Country is the latest film
by acclaimed director, WarwickThornton, winner of 2009 Cannes’ Camera d’Or award for Samson and Delilah. -
ABC Premium News. Sweet Country review: Warwick Thorton tackles the Western in ambitious new narrative feature. (n.d). In [ABC Premium News}
Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton came to worldwide attention when he won best first film at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for the bittersweet, outback romance Samson and Delilah.
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Paatsch, L. (2018). Sweet Country: Brutal, beautiful and insightful. In [The Daily Telegraph]
SWEET COUNTRY (MA15+) ***** Director: Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah) Starring: Hamilton Morris, Bryan Brown, Ewen Leslie, Sam Neill, Natassia Gorey-Furber Verdict: The lore of a man versus the law of the landTHE superb new Australian drama Sweet Country does not so much open as immediately close in all around you.That in itself is remarkable, as much of this claustrophobically compelling yarn takes place on the wide open scrublands on the wrong side of Alice Springs
