Warwick Thornton's 'Wolfram' Praised as Modern Australian Classic at Berlin Film Festival
Warwick Thornton's 'Wolfram,' a brutal outback western, has been reviewed as a fiercely original and surprisingly emotional modern Australian classic at the Berlin Film Festival.
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‘Wolfram’ Review: Tough but Tender-Hearted Colonial-Era Australian Western Tracks a Family’s Efforts to Reunite
Set in early 1930s colonial Australia, in and around the fictional town of Henry, Warwick Thornton’s “Wolfram” is divided into four chapters, all taking place in the same tough and sparsely populated world as his 2017 Venice prizewinner “Sweet Country.” His latest is concerned with the subject of separation: of parents and children, of siblings […]
By Guy Lodge
Read full article →‘Wolfram’ Review: Warwick Thornton’s Brutal Outback Western Is A Modern Australian Classic – Berlin Film Festival
Black lives don’t matter in Warwick Thornton’s fiercely original outback western, a surprisingly emotional genre piece that simmers with menace and doesn’t let up until the bloody finale. Saturated in the heatwave colors of Australia’s scorching Red Center, with its searing blue skies and bright orange sands, Wolfram makes the grim, lawless backwater of Wake […]
By Damon Wise
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