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[NITRAM]
ESSAYS№ 01
Every Australian true-crime adaptation asks permission from the audience and not from the dead
We keep making films about real violence and calling it necessary, and the question of who benefits has not been answered.
MARA DENG26.04.2023
MUSIC№ 02
Jed Kurzel scores the silence inside Nitram
The score does almost nothing, and that nothing is the hardest thing a composer can be asked to hold.
KIERAN BOUSTANY06.09.2022
INDUSTRY№ 03
The AACTAs went to Nitram and The Dry and the audience still was not watching
Nitram won seven AACTAs and The Dry won Best Film, and the combined domestic box office of the two was still less than one weekend of a Marvel sequel.
ODETTE MALOUF18.05.2022
FILM№ 04
The five Australian films of 2021 that will still matter in a decade
The year gave us a portrait of a mass killer, a drought-country thriller, a sheep-farming feud, and a lucid day with a grandmother, and all four will last.
BRONTE HAUGHEY22.12.2021
ESSAYS№ 05
2021 was the year Australian cinema got serious and the audience looked away
Four of the year's most significant Australian films dealt in violence, guilt, grief, and landscape, and the domestic audience chose to watch something else.
MARA DENG14.12.2021
FILM№ 06
Nitram refuses to look away and refuses to explain why
Justin Kurzel made a film about the worst thing that ever happened in this country, and he did it without giving the audience anywhere to hide.
BRONTE HAUGHEY18.11.2021
FILM№ 07
Nitram premiered at Cannes and nobody in the room was comfortable
Justin Kurzel brought his Port Arthur film to the Croisette and the festival held its breath for two hours.
BRONTE HAUGHEY16.06.2021
FILM№ 08
The Australian films worth anticipating in 2021
The pipeline froze in 2020, but the films that waited are beginning to move, and several of them are worth the delay.
BRONTE HAUGHEY12.01.2021