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©2019
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1979
Based on the novel by Miles Franklin
Wide screen (1.85:1)
Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by director Gilliam Armstrong, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Audio commentary from 2009 featuring Armstrong; New interview with Armstrong; Interview from 1980 with actor Judy Davis; New interview with production designer Luciana Arrighi; One Hundred a Day (1973), a student short film by Armstrong; Trailer; On insert, an essay by critic Carrie Rickey
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"For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, and craves independence over all else. When a handsome landowner (Sam Neill), disarmed by her unruly charms, begins to court her, Sybylla must decide whether she can reconcile the prospect of marriage with the illustrious life's work she imagines for herself. Suffused with generous humor and a youthful appetite for experience, My Brilliant Career is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit"--Container
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979
Director of photography, Don McAlpine ; editor, Nicholas Beauman ; music director, Nathan Waks
Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Max Cullen, Aileen Britton, Peter Whitford, Patricia Kennedy
MPAA rating: G
Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); LPCM monaural
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)