“We are not back to where we use to be
The mood is even more menacing in Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country, which harks back to the Northern Territory in 1929 as cattle herder Hamilton Morris and wife Natassia Gorey Furber settle on bigot Ewen Leslie’s ranch. Despite the efforts of religious foreman Sam Neill, Leslie picks on the newcomer who defends himself during a drunken […]