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My Brilliant Career
TrailerSybylla (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: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Max Cullen, Aileen Britton, Peter Whitford, Patricia Kennedy, Alan Hopgood, Julia Blake, David Franklin, ...»Director: Gillian ArmstrongCountry: InternationalDuration: 100 minQuality: HDRelease: 1979IMDb: 7.10 CommentsSort By- Newest
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Critic Reviews of "My Brilliant Career"
TIME MagazineSeptember 09, 2014This 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.
VarietyJuly 25, 2008This 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.
Time OutJune 24, 2006The period atmosphere is evoked with careful delicacy, but the characters rarely become more than stereotypes with performances (Judy Davis excepted) to match.
New York TimesMay 09, 2005My 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.
Chicago ReaderJanuary 01, 2000The action and sentiments are familiar to the point of cliche, and there isn't much life in Gillian Armstrong's academic direction.
Radio TimesSeptember 09, 2014Armstrong's subsequent sojourn in Hollywood never yielded a film as engaging and passionately felt as this, her brilliant feature debut.
People MagazineSeptember 09, 2014The continent is distant, the backdrop strange but, as American women will deduce, the problems are very familiar.
TV GuideSeptember 09, 2014The mise-en-scene is well composed, and the story is well told in this wonderful Australian work.
EmanuelLevy.ComFebruary 10, 2013This charming coming of age Australian film marks the debuts of two talented women: Director Gillian Armstrong and actress Judy Davis.
Urban CinefileNovember 24, 2007A 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
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)July 25, 2007A remarkably assured -- and unfailingly attractive looking -- look at the life of a young woman in 1897 Australia.
Filmcritic.comJune 23, 2005Davis 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.
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