Charlie's Country

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anne H @RT68148415 06/11/2023 Rolf De Heer is a brilliant film maker whose work examines the plight of indigenous Australians, sometimes bleak The Tracker to the joyous in Ten Canoes. Charlies Country is a beautiful study of an aging indigenous man whose quest is to return to country. In his quest he becomes ill and is found by his friend and is hospitalized in the city of Darwin. His journey stumbles when he becomes a victim of white mans law and is imprisoned as a result of a fracas with the police. He grapples with the boredom of prison life and the suffocating effect it has on indigenous people who are bonded with the land. David Gulpilil as Charlie is sublime as this proud elegant indigenous man. He is a wise man and his silence and stillness says so much. This is David Gulpilils finest performance and one of the finest I have seen on screen. He is truly mesmerizing on screen, and De Heers Direction is a labor of love of its subject. See more dustin d @RT12543299 02/17/2022 Charlie's Country is a humorous and insightful look at life of an Aboriginal Australian in the repressive police state down under. See more 01/04/2022 Exceptional take on the outcome of colonisation and destruction of first Australians culture. Superbly directed and shot. See more 01/17/2021 love this movie very powerful See more 05/05/2018 Hollywood could never ever make a move like this - understated, non-melodramatic, no Shawshank Redemption BS. Sure it consists of vignettes, but director de Heer knows the cinematic power of co-writer and main actor, Gulpilil. See more 03/07/2018 One of the better movies I have seen in recent times, Charlie's Country is about the agony of dispossession, and the despondency arising from not being able to live life on one's own terms in one's own birthplace, as depicted through the life of Charlie, an elderly aboriginal who lives in Australia's Northern Territory See more Read all reviews

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