Australian cinema

In 1970 Australia set up a film funding commission, and a country that produced almost nothing was exporting films within ten years. Weir made schoolgirls vanish into a rock on a picnic day and never explains anything, Schepisi told of an Aboriginal man of mixed descent driven to murder by humiliation, Armstrong brought to the screen a young woman refusing marriage at the end of the nineteenth century. Miller, with almost nothing, invented on empty roads a post-apocalyptic look copied everywhere.

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• NovelMy Brilliant CareerMiles Franklin · 1901A penniless girl from the bush wants to write, in a time and a country that have no use for it.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaPicnic at Hanging RockPeter Weir · 1975Boarding-school girls climb up to explore a rock one afternoon in 1900, and not all of them are seen again.Cinema
• CinemaThe Chant of Jimmie BlacksmithFred Schepisi · 1978A young man of mixed descent raised at the rectory discovers that his pay depends on the goodwill of those who employ him.Cinema
• CinemaMy Brilliant CareerGillian Armstrong · 1979A rough-edged girl without a dowry is asked in marriage by a wealthy neighbour, and she wants something else.Cinema
• CinemaMad MaxGeorge Miller · 1979A highway patrol officer wants to leave the job, and the gang he had been pursuing turns on his family.Cinema
• CinemaBreaker MorantBruce Beresford · 1980Three Australian lieutenants are tried for executions of prisoners, and their lawyer has only one day to defend them.Cinema