But “Sweet Country” succeeds in its even loftier ambition of taking such a story and placing it within a mythical, archetypal cinematic tradition that makes it much bigger than itself, as big, in fact, as the landscape it inhabits, which is as hostile as it is beautiful and as vast as man’s capacity for cruelty. SWEET COUNTRY is produced by Bunya Productions, with major production investment and development support from Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department, in association with the South Australian Film Corporation, Create NSW, Screen Territory and the Adelaide Film Festival. There’s a lot of space in the Northern Frontier in which it is set, and it’s unsullied by telephone poles or power lines or railroad tracks. Sweet Country is a 2017 Australian meat pie western drama film, directed by Warwick Thornton.Set in 1929 in the sparsely populated outback of the Northern Territory and based on a series of true events, it tells a harsh story against the backdrop of a divided society (between the European settlers and Aboriginal Australians) in the interwar period in Australia. Sweet Country review – lean, unfussy Australian western 4 / 5 stars 4 out of 5 stars. Savage and somber, “Sweet Country” is, on its face, the story of a manhunt. A battle-scarred billy on a roaring campfire has come to the boil. It takes a while to fully register that this Australian Western is set in the late 1920s. Warwick Thornton adds a mythic edge to his 20s-set outback crime tale The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful.

Robbie Collin, Film Critic 8 March 2018 • 1:47pm. It’s notable that, during the era in which the story is set, Indigenous Australians were – by law – classed among this flora and fauna. Tweet. The opening of Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country (2017) is as prosaic as it is poetic. Sweet Country Glenn Kenny April 06, 2018.

Sweet Country showcases this natural splendour (that which earned the Territory 2.6 billion tourist dollars in 2016). Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Sweet Country.