The Nightingale (19th century revenge film from the director of The Babadook)

[TheGodling]

Clare, a young Irish convict, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness and is bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence the man committed against her family. On the way, she enlists the services of Aboriginal tracker Billy, who is marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

The Babadook was pretty damn great and this looks very good as well.

 

[dave]

caught this. 6/10

them British cacs were ruthless

Aborigines tho

 

[Sonny Bonds]

This is one of the most brutal movies I've ever seen. Jesus.

 

[FlyRy]

didn't realize this hit VOD. they dumped it without notice.

missed this in theaters. only $3.99 to rent

 

[HHR]

It's good. It's quite intense.

 

[Bruce LeRoy]

This was a really good film, probably another favorite of mine this year.. It depicts colonialism as it was and doesn't candy coat a thing about it, Even the soldier who was "morally conflicted" ends up committing one of the worst acts in the movie.

The 2 lead actors and the cat that played the main British soldier killed it tho. Was surprised to learn that the aboriginal cat had never acted in anything prior to this.

 

[Piffiztheanswer]

Revenge flicks are always piff

 

[Cartier Murphy]

I caught this on Hulu over the weekend. I was iffy on it in the beginning, considering most of the violence with Claire happens right in the first like 20 minutes of the movie, so I wondered how they would proceed with the story moving forward. Luckily, after that, it was a really gripping examination of colonialism, war, racism, and inhumanity. If I had any gripes with the movie I thought the dream sequences were repetitive and didn’t really add much, but I really enjoyed this still

 

[TheGodling]

Finally got around to watching this. Probably the most honest film about British colonialism in Australia ever made. That is to say, brutal to the bone. Like this film almost makes The Proposition look like a feel-good movie in comparison.

Much like The Babadook Jennifer Kent twists the third act into a psychological drama about trauma and revenge and culture. This might just slip into my top 10 of the year.

 

[re'up]

I saw this back in August, and wasn't as impressed, as a complete movie. The direction and setting is near brilliant, and really captures the brutality of not only the era, but living in that kind of raw, untamed place. The action was well done, but for me, it kept going to the same well as something as low brow as The Patriot, where the villian is nearly gnashing his teeth in every scene, and we are left with a sequence of escapes and captures, reversing themselves.

 

[Figaro]

Parts of this move brehs, god damn

White devils

The homie Billy though