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  2. Oct 31, 2021 · No, ‘The Nightingale’ is not based on a true story. However, it does make rampant use of history to further its narrative. The film is written and directed by Jennifer Kent, who conducted extensive research into the time period that encompasses the Black War in Tasmania.

  3. Oct 3, 2024 · While the characters are fictional, some of their actions are based on real historical figures. Isabelle's escape route over the Pyrenees for downed Allied airmen was based on the Comet line of 24-year-old Andrée de Jongh, a Belgian woman who helped aviators and others escape.

  4. Plot. In 1825, on the eve of the Black War, Irish convict Clare Carroll works as a servant for a Colonial force detachment commanded by Lieutenant Hawkins. The unit is visited by an officer to see if Hawkins is fit for promotion. Clare, nicknamed "Nightingale", sings and serves drinks for the men.

  5. Aug 30, 2019 · Clare, her husband, and infant child are bound as indentured servants to one of these British colonists, an army officer by the name of Hawkins (Sam Claflin). Turns out, Hawkins—despite his ...

  6. Stories about women who had saved Jewish children and rescued downed airmen and put themselves in harm’s way to save others. Women who had paid terrible, unimaginable prices for their heroism. Their stories were impossible to ignore.

  7. Nov 28, 2019 · Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale is a film that bruises the soul. It allows colonialism’s darkest impulses to play out in full, as the camera watches – steady and unblinking.

  8. The Nightingale: Directed by Jennifer Kent. With Aisling Franciosi, Maya Christie, Baykali Ganambarr, Addison Christie. Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family.

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