Criterion Collection

For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklins novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. 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 lifes work she has imagined for herself. Suffused with generous humor and a youthful appetite for experience, My Brilliant Career is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit.

Från IMDB:
A proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence.

Version: : Blu-Ray (import)

Språk : English

EAN : 5050629141436

Label : Criterion Collection

Distributor : Criterion Collection

Inspelningsår : 1979

imdb-rating : 7.1

Längd : 1h 40m