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"For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's 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-ma...

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Corporate Author: Greater Union Organisation. Film Distributors
Other Authors: Armstrong, Gillian, 1950- (Film director), Fink, Margaret (Film producer), Witcombe, Eleanor (Screenwriter), Davis, Judy, 1956- (Actor), Neill, Sam (Actor), Hughes, Wendy, 1952-2014 (Actor), Grubb, Robert, 1950- (Actor), Cullen, Max, 1940- (Actor), Britton, Aileen, 1916-1986 (Actor), Whitford, Peter, 1939- (Actor), Kennedy, Patricia, 1917-2012 (Actor), McAlpine, Donald M. (director of photography.), Beauman, Nicholas (Editor of moving image work), Franklin, Miles, 1879-1954
Format: Videos DVD
Language:English
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
Edition:Director-approved DVD special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 973.
Subjects:
Love > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Australia > Rural conditions > Drama.
Franklin, Miles, > 1879-1954 > Film adaptations.
Closed captioning.
Biographical films.
Romance films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
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Summary:"For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's 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 over 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 imagines for herself. Suffused with generous humor and a youthful appetite for experience, My Brilliant Career is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit"--Container
Item Description:Based on the novel by Miles Franklin.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Insert includes: essay "Unapologetic Women" by critic Carrie Rickey.
Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by director Gilliam Armstrong; Audio commentary from 2009 featuring Armstrong; New interview with Armstrong; Interview from 1980 with actor Judy Davis; New interview with production designer Luciana Arrighi; One Hundred a Day (1973), a student short film by Armstrong; Trailer.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Format:DVD; NTSC, region 1; wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital mono.
Audience:MPAA rating: G.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Don McAlpine ; editor, Nicholas Beauman ; music director, Nathan Waks.
ISBN:9781681435787
1681435780

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