Coming Soon to
Star Cinema
165 mins |
Rated
M (Violence and coarse language)
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Starring David Gulpilil, Jack Thompson, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Bryan Brown, David Wenham
Screening in celebration of Bendigo Art Gallery’s exhibition, Australiana: Designing a Nation, Australia is the second most successful Australian feature film of all time.
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, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
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Screening in celebration of Bendigo Art Gallery’s exhibition, Australiana: Designing a Nation, Australia is the second most successful Australian feature film of all time.
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, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.