The Nightingale (I)

The revoltingly sexist slurs Jennifer Kent received at the end of The Nightingale’s Venice world premiere are a sad reminder that the patriarchy against which Clare fights in 1825 Tasmania is not a dormant relic locked into a period piece, but alive and kicking.

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With “The Babadook” and now The Nightingale, Kent joins the ranks of a few dozen precious filmmakers able to transport us somewhere awful and beautiful, challenging us every step of the way.

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In her standout debut The Babadook, Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent used the supernatural as a framing device for the trauma of one woman. The Nightingale, her much-anticipated second feature, may mine similar territory, but there is a confidence and a self-assuredness on display in Kent’s second feature that was only hinted at in her first.

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Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Nightingale’ Is A Thrilling Revenge Story That Falls Short Of Really Singing

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Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to ‘The Babadook’ turns a historical vengeance-quest into a stake through toxic masculinity’s heart

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Jennifer Kent follows “The Babadook” with a harrowing, politically charged tale of sexual and racial brutality in 19th-century Tasmania.

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Jennifer Kent is an extraordinary film-maker, but by falsely equivocating two vastly different experiences, she steps – misguidedly – into a minefield

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Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale is a brutal, affecting frontier drama

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The movie simmers with a longing for revenge, frequently boiling over, and the foe is not just Hawkins but the colonialist order for which he stands: barbarism, thinly disguised as civilization. Many scenes feel punishingly hard to watch.

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Like “The Revenant,” The Nightingale becomes something of a slog, as Clare’s journey plods toward its maybe-inevitable end.

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The film is filled with brutality from start to finish, over its grueling run-time ("The Nightingale" feels much longer than it is). "The Nightingale" has already caused controversies at festivals, where people walked out, outraged at the multiple violent rape scenes.

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The violence of Jennifer Kent’s film doesn’t seem to build upon its themes so much as repeat them.

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The brutality of Tasmania’s penal colonies is laid bare as Jennifer Kent jettisons make-believe monsters for real ones

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Aisling Franciosi plays a horrifically wronged Irish convict who stalks Sam Claflin's vicious English officer across the Tasmanian wilderness with the help of an aboriginal tracker in the second feature from Jennifer Kent, director of 'The Babadook.'

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