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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Indiepix
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Indiepix
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary Samson, a cheeky 15-year-old boy, and Delilah live in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. Amongst a tiny collection of houses, everything here happens in a cycle. Day in and day out - nothing changes, everything stays the same and no one seems to care. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and ...

Directed By: Warwick Thornton

Written By: Beck Cole, Warwick Thornton

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Indiepix
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Indiepix
  • 1 h 41 m

Samson and Delilah

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
75
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
7.5
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Summary Samson, a cheeky 15-year-old boy, and Delilah live in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. Amongst a tiny collection of houses, everything here happens in a cycle. Day in and day out - nothing changes, everything stays the same and no one seems to care. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and ...

Directed By: Warwick Thornton

Written By: Beck Cole, Warwick Thornton

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20% Mixed
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Viewers may not realize how far they've been pulled in until the movie ends, and they might feel a sense of loss that it can't keep going just a little while longer.
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80
Apr 2, 2018
The honest naturalism of the two young leads is the main reason for the film’s intense grip and power.
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7.5
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31% Mixed
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cinemaquote
Jan 30, 2011
Dear METACRITIC ITs: Please help me change my user review NAME from raco2046 to cinemaquote. I have written over 4 months wihout a reply. My email ****
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JasonFredericks
Oct 18, 2010
This movie is brilliant. It is one of the bleakest films I have ever seen. By focusing on the touching story of two young Aborigines it successfully shows their harsh reality. Warwick Thornton does a magnificent job in not only bringing attention to the Indigenous issue but also in telling a beautiful love story. I only hope that more films and art like this can have a positive impact on some of the issues that this movie brings into focus.
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80
Apr 2, 2018
There’s a bumpy, wholly unexpected dip into melodrama along the way, but the film’s commitment to its characters, and its sheer emotional heft, carries you along regardless.
By Kate Stables FULL REVIEW
80
And by the time Thornton has deftly flipped the script regarding the titular Biblical parable's misogyny, you'll feel as if Aussie cinema has indeed discovered its next great voice.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
70
How do you know you're looking at a pretty good piece of filmmaking? When the director and actors can make you care about the central characters even though they exchange almost no dialogue.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
60
A deglamorized couple-on-the-run story, Warwick Thornton's Samson & Delilah doubles as a portrait of a tiny Australian aboriginal community.
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60
Tender and beautifully acted, it's a unflinchingly bleak glimpse of life on Australia's margins.
By David Parkinson FULL REVIEW
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luistua
Feb 29, 2012
Clásicos les llaman a las pelÃculas cuyo mensaje trasciende su tiempo y su entorno y esta pelÃcula logra transmitirlo asà seas en Australia o seas de MÃxico. AL estar viendo el filme pensaba que cualquier escena podrÃa confundirse con un filme hecho en MÃxico de no ser por los pocos diálogos en inglÃs y en idioma aborigen. Impactante. Bastante recomendable.
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raco2046
Dec 1, 2010
This is a magnificent movie all around. The scarce dialogue, cinematography but specially the 2 young leads are ... inspiring, breathtaking, relentless. There is a moment, a single instant that spoke to me when in a car's tape recorder Rocio Durcal is playing Juan Gabriel (Spanish diva + Mexican divo)... the awkward perfection of this sound insert is, for me, the perfect metaphor of the surprising stuff this movie is made of
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PeeryDo
Jan 11, 2011
Slow, predictable, boring. Let's get real. Been done over, and over, and over, and much better.good things about this ****. It was in focus and it had 1/2 a plot.
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Production Company CAAMA Productions, New South Wales Film & Television Office, Scarlett Pictures, Screen Australia
Release Date Oct 15, 2010
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline True Love.
Website https://adelaidefilmfestival.org/about-adl-film-fest/fund/aff-investment-fund-full-project-slate/samson-and-delilah/
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Awards

Australian Film Institute
• 6 Wins & 12 Nominations
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
Australian Writers' Guild
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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