The Nightingale

Movie

2018

2h 16m

English

Drama, Thriller, Western

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7.2

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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 ...

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The Nightingale

Movie

2018

2h 16m

English

Drama, Thriller, Western

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Cast

Clare

Hawkins

Billy

Ruse

Jago

Goodwin

Eddie

Aidan

Davey

Lowanna

Major Bexley

Stoakes

Harriet

Lowanna's Husband

Sheep Farmer

Dull Convict

Trader

Old Woman

Old Man

Escaped Convict

Archie

Charlie Jampijinpa Brown

Uncle Charlie

Eloise Winestock

Luddy

Huw Higginson

Magistrate

Breanna Geer

Launceston Townfolk

Directed By: Jennifer Kent

Written By: Jennifer Kent

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milanjfs says...

5 years ago

What an emotionally powerful performance by the lead actress. I am completely blown away.

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pcliff069 says...

5 years ago

a fantastic and at times disturbing movie. Australia's colonial past had a darker side which we must not ignore.

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CRiXiD says...

3 months ago

One of the handful of films I give a perfect score to. Everything about this is a masterclass. Terrifying, profound and beautiful. Aisling should have won an Oscar for this.

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Xiofire says...

5 years ago

Dark, bleak and almost violent to a fault, The Nightingale will surely put off many viewers, but those who stick around will be treated to a bare faced flick about the futility of revenge, and the atrocities brought about by colonialism in early 19th century Tasmania. Not for the faint of heart, and sometimes a little too on the nose with it’s messages, The Nightingale is a controversial ride for viewers who wish to test their shock-cinema mettle, but also for those who appreciate movies that tackle difficult, unresolved contemporary issues to muse on long after the runtime concludes.

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AndrewBloom

CONTAINS SPOILERS9/10 5 years ago

[9.0/10] There’s a select group of movies -- ones like *Requiem for a Dream*, *The Road*, and *Hereditary* -- that are extraordinary achievements in filmmaking and artistry, but which I never, ever want to see again. *The Nightingale* instantly joins that distinguished collection, a gripping, affe More

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SWITCH.

6 years ago

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 fil More

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Stephen Campbell

5 years ago

**_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 More

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msbreviews

5 years ago

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.”

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