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  • 1979
  • G
  • Analysis Film Releasing Corporation
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 1979
  • G
  • Analysis Film Releasing Corporation
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary A young independent woman who lives with her grandmother and aunt in the countryside rebels against being pressured into marriage and chooses to solely focus on having a career as a writer. Nevertheless, two suitors propose to her.

Directed By: Gillian Armstrong

Written By: Eleanor Witcombe, Miles Franklin

  • 1979
  • G
  • Analysis Film Releasing Corporation
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 1979
  • G
  • Analysis Film Releasing Corporation
  • 1 h 40 m

My Brilliant Career

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
77
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Summary A young independent woman who lives with her grandmother and aunt in the countryside rebels against being pressured into marriage and chooses to solely focus on having a career as a writer. Nevertheless, two suitors propose to her.

Directed By: Gillian Armstrong

Written By: Eleanor Witcombe, Miles Franklin

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
77
69% Positive
9 Reviews
31% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
77
69% Positive
9 Reviews
31% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Armstrong's first feature is a terrific job, a universally appealing story told with an integrity, humanity, warmth and humor you can taste. It is beautifully shot and performed with a style and sensitivity worthy of England's best actors. Russet-haired, bold-eyed, defiantly freckled Davis is like a summer storm, and Sam Neill has the rueful charm of a young James Mason. [22 Oct 1979, p.101]
By Jack Kroll FULL REVIEW
100
The film itself is a kind of free spirit, and one that has made an indelible print on Australian cinema.
By Luke Buckmaster FULL REVIEW
90
My Brilliant Career doesn't need to trumpet either its or its heroine's originality this loudly. The facts speak for themselves — and so does the radiance with which Miss Armstrong and Miss Davis invest so many memorable moments.
By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW
80
This Australian film is a charming look [from the book by Miles Franklin] at 19th-century rural days in general and the stirrings of self-realization and feminine liberation in the persona of a headstrong young girl who wants to go her own way.
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70
This is a modest, clear sighted film, and it profits considerably from a lack of the bravura landscape photography that most directors would have used to puff up a movie set in Australia.
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60
This conflict between love and ambition is finely depicted as far as it goes, and the period setting, in a time when birth control problems made the choice of marriage a commitment to unlimited family life, could have reinforced the poignancy of the choice. But because the character has been thinly written, her decision seems selfishly arbitrary. [14 March 1980, p.17]
By Judith Martin FULL REVIEW
50
The period atmosphere is evoked with careful delicacy, but the characters rarely become more than stereotypes with performances (Judy Davis excepted) to match.
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Production Company Margaret Fink Productions, New South Wales Film Corporation, Greater Union Organisation (GUO)
Release Date Aug 17, 1979
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating G
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Tagline Sometimes it is the things that bind us, that truly set us free.
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Australian Film Institute
• 6 Wins & 11 Nominations

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