Tag: Warwick Thornton

Film review: ‘WOLFRAM’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

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Warwick Thornton is arguably Australia’s finest contemporary film director. With works such as Sampson and Delilah and Sweet Country he has crafted unflinching, gritty, yet poetic and masterfully constructed films celebrating First Nations Peoples while laying bare the often brutal prejudice inflicted on them. His latest film, Wolfram is a sequel of sorts to Sweet Country as Philomac (this time

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Film review: SWEET COUNTRY by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Sweet Country is the latest film from director Warwick Thornton who gave us one of the great Australian films of recent times, Sampson and Delilah. Confronting, powerful and visually startling, Sweet Country is almost as remarkable a piece of filmmaking as Sampson and Delilah, only falling short due to a slightly loose and rambling script. Evoking films such as the Searchers,

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