The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
Country: AUS
Technical: col/scope 122m
Director: Fred Schepisi
Cast: Tommy Lewis, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson
Synopsis:
An aborigine half-caste finds white superiority implacable when he tries to abide by it, and he revolts.
Review:
Unrelenting in its portrait of the white Australians as ignorant savages, with one or two constipated exceptions, and violent when it shows Jimmie go the same way, the film offers no solution to the eternal resentment which presumably obtains to this day. Gripping and serious film-making of high quality.
Country: AUS
Technical: col/scope 122m
Director: Fred Schepisi
Cast: Tommy Lewis, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson
Synopsis:
An aborigine half-caste finds white superiority implacable when he tries to abide by it, and he revolts.
Review:
Unrelenting in its portrait of the white Australians as ignorant savages, with one or two constipated exceptions, and violent when it shows Jimmie go the same way, the film offers no solution to the eternal resentment which presumably obtains to this day. Gripping and serious film-making of high quality.
Country: AUS
Technical: col/scope 122m
Director: Fred Schepisi
Cast: Tommy Lewis, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson
Synopsis:
An aborigine half-caste finds white superiority implacable when he tries to abide by it, and he revolts.
Review:
Unrelenting in its portrait of the white Australians as ignorant savages, with one or two constipated exceptions, and violent when it shows Jimmie go the same way, the film offers no solution to the eternal resentment which presumably obtains to this day. Gripping and serious film-making of high quality.