2019 · drama · crime · western
True History of the Kelly Gang
Directed by Justin Kurzel2h 5m2019
Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.
Our read: True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive drama · crime · western entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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