My Brilliant Career.
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Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Judy Davis, Sam Neill
Originally produced by Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) in 1979.
For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin’s novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis), bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry, where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, and craves independence above all else. When a handsome landowner (Sam Neill), disarmed by her unruly charms, begins to court her, Sybylla must decide whether she can reconcile the prospect of marriage with the illustrious life’s work she has imagined for herself. Suffused with generous humor and a youthful appetite for experience, MY BRILLIANT CAREER is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit. Nominated for a **Golden Globe** for Best Foreign Film. **BAFTA** Award winner for Best Actress. Nominated for a Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
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