My brilliant career / The New South Wales Film Corporation and G U O Film Distribution present Maragret Fink's production ; screenplay, Eleanor Witcombe ; producer, Margaret Fink ; director, Gill Armstrong ; Margaret Fink Films Pty. Ltd.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Container of (work): My brilliant career (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95081296 One hundred a day.
Notes:
Title and credits from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1979. Based on the novel by Miles Franklin. Wide screen (1.85:1). Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979. Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by director Gilliam Armstrong, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Audio commentary from 2009 featuring Armstrong; New interview with Armstrong; Interview from 1980 with actor Judy Davis; New interview with production designer Luciana Arrighi; One Hundred a Day (1973), a student short film by Armstrong; Trailer; On insert, an essay by critic Carrie Rickey. Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Max Cullen, Aileen Britton, Peter Whitford, Patricia Kennedy.
Summary:
"For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, and craves independence over all else. When a handsome landowner (Sam Neill), disarmed by her unruly charms, begins to court her, Sybylla must decide whether she can reconcile the prospect of marriage with the illustrious life's work she imagines for herself. Suffused with generous humor and a youthful appetite for experience, My Brilliant Career is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit"--Container.
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