Sybylla Melvyn
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My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Australian period drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill, and Wendy Hughes.
My Brilliant Career: Directed by Gillian Armstrong. With Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb. A proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence.
- (4.9K)
- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Gillian Armstrong
- 1979-08-17
- A Hoydenish Tomboy
- A Higher Love
- A Social Divide
Sybylla is a highly likeable but flawed heroine, kicking around a crowded home and lamenting the “agonizing monotony, narrowness, and absolute uncongeniality” of teenage life. The family has fallen on hard times, shifting from three stations and 200,000 acres to the small and “stagnant” Possum Gully. Dick Melvyn, once his daughter’s “hero, confidan...
Distinguishing between sexual passion and friendship love, Aunt Helen advises Sybylla she might receive and find real love in the latter. Yet Sybylla seeks a higher love. Having “learnt them by heart”, the “men I loved” are the poets and she continues her “hope that one day I would clasp hands with them, and feel and know the unspeakable comfort an...
While representing the “rope of class distinction” drawing “tighter” around Australian working men and women, My Brilliant Career revealed a social divide marked as much by race as class and gender. The Irish M’Swats, for whom Sybylla is forced to become a governess to repay her father’s debt, are depicted as uncivilised in their dirtiness. The Abo...
- Ann Vickery
Apr 26, 2020 · Released at the height of the Australian New Wave, the film has been rightfully labelled the country’s first feminist feature film. 1 Fittingly, then, it is also notable for launching the career of director Gillian Armstrong, who became the first Australian woman to helm a feature in a staggering 46 years.
- Gabrielle O'brien
A young woman, Sybylla Melvyn, is stuck in a rural area but dreams of a career in the arts, ideally as a writer. Her ambitions are at odds with her family's aims for her and with broader society's views on a woman's path in life. She meets a young man and the two are soon close.
Gillian Armstrong's Australian period drama My Brilliant Career (1979) is a beautifully shot romance of passionate and willful characters.
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- Drama
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Apr 30, 2019 · Suffused with generous humor and a youthful appetite for experience, My Brilliant Career is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit. Period romance meets coming of age drama in early 1900s Australia — it’s a synopsis suggestive of a tale that could easily fall into trite fare or simple, charming entertainment.
