The Guardian
It’s Purcell’s powerhouse performance that lends the film its punchier, gritty edge.
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The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson | Reviews
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IndieWire
Purcell, as star, stays resolute to the last, but as filmmaker, her sharp ideas are dulled into something that barely leaves a mark.
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Film Threat
Despite struggling with a thematic focus, the film presents a woman who is well worth getting to know.
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The Conversation
A subversive survival story that brings an unflinching new perspective to Australian cinema’s ongoing engagement with the frontier.
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Hollywood Reporter
The engrossing thriller is admirably ambitious but choppy, at times eluding the director’s grasp.
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The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is a vital and provocative Australian western
The Wentworth actress is the undeniable centre of this stoic western, adding to the conversation of Australia’s past.
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Leah Purcell on the long journey of The Drover’s Wife – and the political power of the western
From bedtime story to stage to page to screen, Purcell has yearned to tell her Western tale “in a blackfella way”.
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