‘Australia’ an epic romantic action adventure about an English Aristocratic woman and a rough-hewn local cattle drover, directed by Baz Luhrmann is now being screened at the Majestic cinema, Colombo.
Starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, the film is a character story, set between 1939 and 1942 against a dramatised backdrop of events across Northern Australia at the time, such as the bombing of Darwin during World War II.
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In the movie, Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) is a prime and proper Englishwoman who journeys to Australia in the years before World War II reached the country’s shores. She is determined to have her estranged husband sell his cattle ranch to a monopoly-craving businessman named King Carney (Bryan Brown), but when she arrives, Lord Ashley is dead, and her plan to sell the ranch changes when she sees an employee named Fletcher (David Wenham) cheating her husband’s business and mistreating a young boy named Nullah (Brandon Walters) because he is of mixed race. Urged on by both pride and a sense of justice, Lady Ashley wants to drive her herd of cattle to Darwin so she can sell them to the troops, but she’ll require the help of an independent cowboy (fellow Aussie Hugh Jackman) to get them there.
Shot in Sydney, Darwin, Kununurra, and Bowen, the Box-office record movie was released on November 2008 worldwide by Twentieth Century Fox. |
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