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  • Official Trailer
  • Trailer 1

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

Cast

  • Aisling Franciosi
  • Sam Claflin
  • Baykali Ganambarr
  • Damon Herriman
  • Harry Greenwood
  • Ewen Leslie
  • Charlie Shotwell
  • Michael Sheasby
  • Matthew Sunderland
  • Magnolia Maymuru

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Metacritic

75
Aug 7, 2019

Early scenes are unnecessarily horrific, and the final scenes falter from a disconcerting shift in tone. But this still leaves a significant stretch of beautiful acting, thoroughly engaging action and vital history lessons about the brutality on which some supposedly civil societies were built.

Metacritic review by Carla Meyer
Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle
88
Jul 24, 2019

When violence does befall Clare and her family, it is far more devastating than anything she could possibly have imagined. It’s also as shocking and difficult to watch as any I have seen in a lifetime of watching violent movies.

Oliver Jones
Observer
91
Jan 27, 2019

There’s a tragic, moving resonance to the film’s vision of two marginalized characters—one Black, the other a woman, both stripped of everything—finding common ground in their parallel trauma and resistance. It’s there in the scenes between Franciosi and first-time actor Ganambarr, forging empathy and a mutual respect in the fire of survival, without a hint of bathetic sentimentality.

Metacritic review by A.A. Dowd
A.A. Dowd
The A.V. Club