Australia,
1979, 100 min
Directed by:
Gillian ArmstrongScreenplay:
Eleanor WitcombeCinematography:
Donald McAlpineComposer:
Nathan WaksCast:
Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Julia Blake, David Franklin, Gerry Duggan, Tony Hughes, Zelda Smyth, Robert Austin, Max Cullen, Simone Buchanan (more)Plots(1)
Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance), bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry, where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, and craves independence above all else. When a handsome landowner (Sam Neill), disarmed by her unruly charms, begins to court her, Sybylla must decide whether she can reconcile the prospect of marriage with the illustrious life’s work she has imagined for herself. Suffused with generous humour and a youthful appetite for experience, My Brilliant Career is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit. (Criterion)
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