The Nightingale

The Nightingale
7.1

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Directed by: Jennifer Kent

Overview

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

The Nightingale
The Nightingale
The Nightingale
The Nightingale
The Nightingale

Reviews (3)

  • SWITCH. (Rated: 6)

    Even with its flaws, this feminist Western is too violent, too dirty, too bloody, and too barbaric to be forgotten easily. When the lights in the cinema came on, the woman next to me was crying and, a few rows over, someone murmured that they had now had PTSD. 'The Nightingale’ is not an easy film ...

  • Stephen Campbell (Rated: 8)

    A superb, albeit harrowing drama about colonial violence, misogyny, and racism

    _Whether the Blacks deserve any mercy at the hands of the pioneering squatters is an open question, but that they get none is certain. They are a doomed race, and before many years they will be completely wiped ...

  • Manuel São Bento (Rated: 8)

    Jennifer Kent delivered one of the best horror movies of the decade, The Babadook. With The Nightingale, only her second feature film, she offers one of the most visually brutal, shocking, jaw-dropping, violent revenge stories ever. This movie is the definition of “not for everyone.”

    Rating: A-

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