My brilliant career

The Resource My brilliant career
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My brilliant career
Statement of responsibility
The New South Wales Film Corporation and G U O Film Distribution present Maragret Fink's production ; screenplay, Eleanor Witcombe ; producer, Margaret Fink ; director, Gill Armstrong ; Margaret Fink Films Pty. Ltd
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  • eng
  • eng
  • eng
  • eng
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
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Awards note
BAFTA Film Award, Best Actress and Most Outstanding Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, Judy Davis, 1981.
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Don McAlpine ; editor, Nicholas Beauman ; music director, Nathan Waks
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
MPAA rating: G
Language note
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
LC call number
PN1997
LC item number
.M8874 2019
PerformerNote
Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Max Cullen, Aileen Britton, Peter Whitford, Patricia Kennedy
Runtime
100
Series statement
The Criterion collection
Series volume
973
Technique
live action
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