Fresh
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.
John Skow, TIME Magazine
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My Brilliant Career
Overview
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
Director and cast
- Gillian Armstrong Director
- Judy Davis as Sybylla Melvyn
- Sam Neill as Harry Beecham
- Wendy Hughes as Aunt Helen
- Robert Grubb as Frank Hawdon
- Max Cullen as Mr. McSwatt
- Aileen Britton as Grandma Bossier
- Peter Whitford as Uncle Julius
- Patricia Kennedy as Aunt Gussie
- Alan Hopgood as Father
- Julia Blake as Mother
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This Australian film is a charming look 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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
The period atmosphere is evoked with careful delicacy, but the characters rarely become more than stereotypes with performances (Judy Davis excepted) to match.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
My Brilliant Career marks the beginning of exactly that for both the film's daring, assured, high-spirited Australian director, Gillian Armstrong, and its rambunctious young star.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
The action and sentiments are familiar to the point of cliche, and there isn't much life in Gillian Armstrong's academic direction.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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