In this episode of the Seventh Row podcast, we are joined by special guest Joe Lipsett to discuss Jennifer Kent’s revisionist rape revenge film The Nightingale.
Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste), Associate Editor Brett Pardy (@antiqueipod), and Editor at Large Mary Angela Rowe (@lapsedvictorian) welcome special guest Joe Lipsett (@bstolemyremote) to the podcast. We discuss The Nightingale‘s controversies, how Kent handles trauma, depicts colonialism, wonder where all the animals are, and much more.
Check back next week for a bonus mini-episode on the performances in The Nightingale.
About Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
Set in Australia in 1825, the film follows a young Irish convict, Clare (Aisling Franciosi), on her mission of revenge through the Tasmanian wilderness. She’s chasing after the British officer (Sam Claflin) who brutally raped her and committed great violence against her family. Clare enlists the help of Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), an aboriginal man, as her guide.
Watch the trailer here.
Show Notes and Recommended Reading
Listen to Joe Lipsett’s Horror Queers podcast and his podcast Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr, which looks at Young Adult books and their screen adaptations.
Orla Smith reviewed The Nightingale as part of her Sundance London ’19 Review Capsules.
Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country is a revisionist Australian western from an Indigenous point of view. Alex Heeney interviewed him about the film in 2018.
In our intro, we discuss Patricia Rozema’s Mouthpiece (also discussed in depth on Ep. 13) and Keith Berhman’s Giant Little Ones. Interviews with both directors, and much more, are included in our upcoming ebook, The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook.
Catch up with more great Canadian films by taking the Canadian Cinema Challenge: we’ll curate some of the best films of the decade, help you locate how to stream them, and guide you through your viewing. Take the Canadian Cinema Challenge now.
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