The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson

The cinematography by Mark Wareham is exquisite, capturing the desolate charm of a landscape far less hostile than the settlers who have colonized it.

...it’s an epic by short story standards...

...it’s Purcell’s powerhouse performance that lends the film its punchier, gritty edge.

...tackles issues of race, sexual violence and the low-level simmering cruelty that is a fact of life for those hardy individuals who make a life in the bush in the late 19th century.