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  Aacta awards 2019: it's strange to be a critic at the ceremony

  Aacta awards 2019: it's strange to be a critic at the ceremonyGuardian Australia’s film critic tries to avoid red carpets at all costs. We made him sit through this one

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  Aacta awards 2019 winners: The Nightingale and Total Control dominate Australian screen awards

  Aacta awards 2019 winners: The Nightingale and Total Control dominate Australian screen awardsDeborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths recognised for ABC TV drama, while Jennifer Kent’s colonial horror film swept the film categories

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  The Nightingale review: rape, revenge, and the horrors buried in Australia's past

  Dir: Jennifer Kent. Cast: Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie, Michael Sheasby. 18 cert, 136 mins

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  The Nightingale review – gut-churning colonial rape-revenge drama

  The Nightingale review – gut-churning colonial rape-revenge drama. In Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to The Babadook, set in 19th-century Tasmania, an Irishwoman seeks payback after being brutally gang-raped by British troops

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  Evening Standard

  The Nightingale review: Outback trauma – then sweet revenge

  Already infamous thanks to its brutal rape and murder scenes (which have caused faintings and walk-outs at festivals), this anti-colonial period drama from Jennifer Kent tracks the progress of an Irish convict in Tasmania. Walking to the screening, I felt sick to my stomach. Thirty minutes in, I was rigid with distress.The most shocking thing about this shocking film? When it was over, I felt like I’d been released from a warm hug. Kent’s yummily disturbing debut The Babadook was a love story be

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  The Independent

  The Nightingale review: A brutal, unflinching look at colonialism’s darkest impulses

  Dir: Jennifer Kent. Cast: Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr, Sam Claflin, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie. 18 cert, 136 mins.Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale is a film that bruises the soul. It allows colonialism’s darkest impulses to play out in full, as the camera watches – steady and unblinking. The violence will be too much for some. Indeed, the film’s already caused a stir, with reports of walk-outs and disruption at its festival screenings. But Kent treats this approach to h

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  'The Nightingale' actor Aisling Franciosi defends the film from critics who called it 'gratuitous'

  Aisling Franciosi says the violence in Jennifer Kent's new film 'The Nightingale' has 'hit a nerve' because it feels real.

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  'The Nightingale' star Sam Claflin: 'I had kids and all of a sudden I started playing villains'

  Sam Claflin plays the violent British military man Hawkins in Jennifer Kent's blistering drama 'The Nightingale'.

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  Psychologist helped Sam Claflin get into mind of killer for The Nightingale role

  The actor stars alongside Aisling Franciosi in the Tasmania-set period thriller.

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  New film from 'Babadook' director causes walk outs and audience members shouting at the screen

  The new movie from director Jennifer Kent, who made feted indie horror 'The Babadook', has caused furious cinemagoers to walk out, and some to shout out during the screening.

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