1920s Australia Is No 'Sweet Country' for Aboriginals
1920s Australia Is No 'Sweet Country' for Aboriginals - Set in Alice Springs, Australia , in 1929, the movie tracks the fate of Sam (a fine Hamilton Morris), an Aboriginal stockman forced to flee after killing a white farmer in self-defense. Around this spare story, though, the director Warwick Thornton constructs a searing indictment of frontier racism as remarkable ...