2008 · adventure · romance · drama
Australia
Directed by Baz Luhrmann2h 45m2008
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
Our read: Australia (2008) reads as a warm, steady, grounded adventure · romance · drama entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, measured adventure / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
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