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My Brilliant Career
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Sybylla (Judy Davis), a headstrong, free-spirited girl growing up in late 19th century Australia, dreams of becoming a famous writer. When the man she loves proposes, Sybylla must choose between romance an the brilliant career she craves.
Sybylla (Judy Davis), a headstrong, free-spirited girl growing up in late 19th century Australia, dreams of becoming a famous writer. When the man she loves proposes, Sybylla must choose between romance an the brilliant career she craves.
Actors:
James Moss,
Zelda Smyth,
Bill Charlton,
Tony Hughes,
Dorothy St. Heaps,
Gordon Piper,
David Franklin
James Moss
Zelda Smyth
Bill Charlton
Tony Hughes
Dorothy St. Heaps
Gordon Piper
3 June 1932, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
David Franklin
7 May 1962, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Country:
International
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July 25, 2007
A remarkably assured -- and unfailingly attractive looking -- look at the life of a young woman in 1897 Australia.
September 09, 2014
The mise-en-scene is well composed, and the story is well told in this wonderful Australian work.
Time Out
June 24, 2006
The period atmosphere is evoked with careful delicacy, but the characters rarely become more than stereotypes with performances (Judy Davis excepted) to match.
June 23, 2005
Davis is charmingly cynical in the film, and Neill's a winner, but ultimately this period piece gets so caught up in its own cleverness and wannabe shock that it comes off as trite.
New York Times
May 09, 2005
My Brilliant Career marks the beginning of exactly that for both the film's daring, assured, high-spirited Australian director, Gillian Armstrong, and its rambunctious young star.
September 09, 2014
The continent is distant, the backdrop strange but, as American women will deduce, the problems are very familiar.
September 09, 2014
This is a modest, clear sighted film, and it profits considerably from a lack of the bravura landscape photography that most directors would have used to puff up a movie set in Australia.
February 10, 2013
This charming coming of age Australian film marks the debuts of two talented women: Director Gillian Armstrong and actress Judy Davis.
January 01, 2000
The action and sentiments are familiar to the point of cliche, and there isn't much life in Gillian Armstrong's academic direction.
November 24, 2007
A seminal part of Australian cinema, made at the end of the 70s, when local filmmaking was no longer just a wild dream; in some ways we can see a symbolic metaphor for Australia itself in the story of strong willed Sybylla aspiring to be heard
July 25, 2008
This Australian film is a charming look at 19th-century rural days in general and the stirrings of self-realization and feminine liberation in the persona of a headstrong young girl who wants to go her own way.
September 09, 2014
Armstrong's subsequent sojourn in Hollywood never yielded a film as engaging and passionately felt as this, her brilliant feature debut.