Fred Schepisi’s 1978 sophomore film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith holds a significant prominence in the Australian New Wave, which revitalized Australia’s film industry throughout the 1970s and 1980s, in that it was the first Australian film to compete in Cannes. A vibrant, eventually violent saga of an Indigenous man’s turn to bloody vengeance, Blacksmith’s saga is perhaps the most socially provocative figure outside of Ned Kelly (who’s mentioned in the film’s proceedings) to receive such cinematic reverence in Australian cinema. Schepisi, whose filmography runs a gamut of social issue topics, famed play adaptations, Hollywood rom-coms and even espionage thrillers, is perhaps best remembered for the 1988 Meryl Streep starrer A Cry in the Dark (which generated a rather infamous punchline about a dingo), but his recuperation of Jimmie Blacksmith arrives just in time for a resurgence of cinema dealing with Australia’s dark history.…
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- 10/1/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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