‘Sweet Country,’ which stars Sam Neil (Jurassic Park), Bryan Brown (Cocktail), and newcomer Hamilton Morris is an Australian Western set in Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s.
The film is a story about justice being put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense. Then, the man is forced to run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
In this interview, director Warwick Thornton talks about his award winning film, the importance of playing with time in movies, how to engage and disengage an audience, and the importance of removing music to highlight the landscape and tone.
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