The New Boy (2023)
Country: AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 116m
Director: Warwick Thornton
Cast: Aswan Reid, Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman
Synopsis:
In the 1940s, Western Australia, an aboriginal boy is delivered by the police to an orphanage overseen somewhat cagily by a pair of nuns. There he is accorded the leniency of his caste and allowed to range free-spiritedly over the place until he learns to use a spoon and follow Jesus.
Review:
The official policy of assimilation of aboriginals is the subject of this well-intentioned film festival contender, the child's magical gifts seemingly under-appreciated by his alternately anguished or placid hosts; but no amount of artful cinematography can make up for an essential lack of drama. It is as if the makers felt that conventional storytelling and dialogue would trivialise their theme, and so one finely crafted scene follows another without any sense of time or narrative continuity.
Country: AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 116m
Director: Warwick Thornton
Cast: Aswan Reid, Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman
Synopsis:
In the 1940s, Western Australia, an aboriginal boy is delivered by the police to an orphanage overseen somewhat cagily by a pair of nuns. There he is accorded the leniency of his caste and allowed to range free-spiritedly over the place until he learns to use a spoon and follow Jesus.
Review:
The official policy of assimilation of aboriginals is the subject of this well-intentioned film festival contender, the child's magical gifts seemingly under-appreciated by his alternately anguished or placid hosts; but no amount of artful cinematography can make up for an essential lack of drama. It is as if the makers felt that conventional storytelling and dialogue would trivialise their theme, and so one finely crafted scene follows another without any sense of time or narrative continuity.
Country: AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 116m
Director: Warwick Thornton
Cast: Aswan Reid, Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman
Synopsis:
In the 1940s, Western Australia, an aboriginal boy is delivered by the police to an orphanage overseen somewhat cagily by a pair of nuns. There he is accorded the leniency of his caste and allowed to range free-spiritedly over the place until he learns to use a spoon and follow Jesus.
Review:
The official policy of assimilation of aboriginals is the subject of this well-intentioned film festival contender, the child's magical gifts seemingly under-appreciated by his alternately anguished or placid hosts; but no amount of artful cinematography can make up for an essential lack of drama. It is as if the makers felt that conventional storytelling and dialogue would trivialise their theme, and so one finely crafted scene follows another without any sense of time or narrative continuity.