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Dominican Rep. 
My Brilliant Career
6.6
171
Drama
Sybylla (Judy Davis) is a headstrong girl growing up in early 20th century Australia, has the opportunity of marriage to a wealthy young man named Harry (Sam Neill) whom she loves, but rejects it in order to maintain her independence, preferring to take a job as governess/housekeeper to the family of an illiterate neighbor to whom her father owes money.
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"It's hard to imagine a film filled with more quiet integrity, intelligent passion, realistic drama and genuine entertainment than Gillian Armstrong's 'My Brilliant Career.'" | ||
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"Armstrong's subsequent sojourn in Hollywood never yielded a film as engaging and passionately felt as this, her brilliant feature debut." | ||
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"The period atmosphere is evoked with careful delicacy, but the characters rarely become more than stereotypes with performances (Judy Davis excepted) to match." | ||
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"The mise-en-scene is well composed, and the story is well told in this wonderful Australian work." | ||
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"The action and sentiments are familiar to the point of cliche, and there isn't much life in Gillian Armstrong's academic direction." | ||
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"A charming look at 19th-century rural days in general and the stirrings of self-realization and feminine liberation" |
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