Description: Winner of Six Australian Academy Awards, Including Best Picture and Best Director.
Exquisite 2-Disc Special Edition
This is the film that became a worldwide sensation and remains perhaps the most beloved and acclaimed romantic epic of all time. Oscar -nominee Judy Davis (Passage To India, Husbands and Wives) made her international debut as Sybylla Melvyn, a free spirited young writer who refues to conform to society's expectations of how a 'proper woman' should live her life. Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, The Piano) co-stars as the wealthy suitor who tries to win her restless heart in this Oscar nominated classic by Gillian Armstrong (Little Women, Starstruck). Long unavailable in America, My Brilliant Career has been fully restored and remastered in High Definition from the original negative, under the supervision of Academy Award nominated Director of Photography Donald McAlpine.
Amazon.com: The acclaimed debut of Judy Davis is the best reason to see My Brilliant Career, and the award-winning film is highly recommended as the feature debut of director Gillian Armstrong. This was an early entry in the magnificent "New Australian Cinema" movement that yielded such classics as Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, and Breaker Morant, and 27-year-old Armstrong (who would later direct the popular 1994 version of Little Women) brought just the right feminist touch to this stately adaptation of the 1901 semi-autobiographical novel by Miles Franklin. Davis (who was 23 at the time) plays 16-year-old Sybylla Melvyn, on the verge of womanhood in turn-of-the-century Australia and determined to have a "brilliant career" as an independent writer and lover of life, but her attraction to a wealthy bachelor (Sam Neill, charming as always), and the pressures of her family to lead a conventional life of devoted domesticity, turn this into a romantic and highly observant drama of personal dilemma and free-spirited conviction. It's no surprise that Davis and Armstrong went on to brilliant careers themselves (Davis starred in David Lean's A Passage to India just a few years later). --Jeff Shannon
I Bugged HBO About Sam Years Ago Because of This! I saw this years ago when it was new. LOVED the film, read the book (and the sequel). Became a BIG Sam Neill fan. In the "old" days when cable was new, you could request films, by name. I was able to do some digging in foreign film periodicals, and started requesting some of the films he made in New Zealand and Australia. HBO aired them, several times! So, in my own small way, I helped introduce him to the states. And Judy Davis is/was wonderful! Loved the hair!!!
Great movie! And great for younger girls to watch.
For true romantics This is simply a beautiful film, bursting with life and creativity--I recommend it to anyone. Don't miss the featurettes on the DVD set, especially the interview with director Gillian Armstrong, recalling how she argued for the film's free-spirited ending (barely imaginable even in the 1970s) and ended up winning the hearts of the audience at the Cannes Film Festival.
My Brilliant Career(DVD) I saw this movie twice in one week years ago.It was the first time I saw Judy Davis.She was then and still is a wonderful actress.The film has a good story&I found it charming,witty,and fun.It does have its serious moments.It is exctremely well done.One of the best of its kind I have seen.
Yet another contrarian view I wanted to like this film. I really did. Especially after reading the glowing reviews here. But I found it somewhat empty and non-sensical in some aspects. One thing I couldn't understand is why the main protagonist had to go to work as a governess for this poor family when she was living with her rich grandmother. How much money could her father owe this man that her grandmother couldn't pay off the debt for him? I didn't find the romance nor the entire film believable. The cinematography was gorgeous as well as the sets. But that's about all I got out of it, although I admit the second half was better than the first half, but that's still not saying much in my opinion.
A daughter who is useless, plain, and godless If you loved Anne of Green Gables and Out of Africa, you would probably enjoy My Brilliant Career. A determined young woman in Autralia deals with adversity and love, while holding onto her dream of becoming a writer.
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