Australia's dark secret of institutionalist eugenics gets an impressive and heartfelt celluloid airing in this adaptation of Doris Pilkington Garimara's book, a story based around the astonishing real life journey of three young girls, removed from their true Aboriginal families and transplanted to a boarding school/prison to be trained as domestic servants (from whence it was hoped they would quietly blend into white society), and their 1,500 mile trek home with only a rabbit proof fence to gui
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THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
Santi is a decomposing wraith terrorising the inhabitants of a secluded orphanage towards the end of the Spanish Civil War, but the more the children discover about their tormentor the more they understand the reasons for his actions and decide to wreak a terrible revenge on behalf of Santi's tortured soul. The Devil's Backbone is a superbly atmospheric ghost story, elegant and terrifying in turns, stylishly directed and beautifully shot, with some fine performances.
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THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)
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Sweeping romantic drama of epic proportions. Fiennes's WWII pilot lays badly burned and in the care of an army nurse. As the unnamed, stiff-upper-lipped "English Patient" begins to recover, memories emerge of a past life as an archaeologist/cartographer in the Sahara, and a passionate affair with a married woman, Katharine. Though Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel simplifies, jettisons and changes certain elements of the original story, it remains a rich, complex, entran
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