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The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, or simply The Drover's Wife, is a 2021 Australian revisionist Western film directed, written, and co-produced by Leah Purcell in her feature directorial debut. It is an adaptation of Purcell's 2016 play and a reimagining of Henry Lawson's 1892 short story.
Nov 9, 2021 · Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: the Legend of Molly Johnson is an inspired and compelling re-imagining of Henry Lawson’s The Drover’s Wife, a short story originally published in The...
May 5, 2022 · The classic short tale of a harried bush woman who fiercely guards her young children while her husband is away on business, by bush poet Henry Lawson, stuck in the back of Purcell’s mind as a ...
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Mar 15, 2024 · He’s married to an Aboriginal woman who’s expecting another child. At the window of their home, he keeps a framed copy of her mother’s story as Louisa wrote ‘The Drover’s Wife: Molly Johnson’s Story.’
May 10, 2021 · May 10, 2021 7:00am PT. ‘The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson’ Review: An Exceptionally Compelling Outback Western. Underscoring of the obvious in a handful of scenes does little to...
Aug 19, 2022 · In 1893, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson and her children struggle in isolation to survive the harsh Australian landscape after her husband left to go droving sheep in the high country. One day, she finds a shackled Aboriginal fugitive named Yakada wounded on her property.
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Mar 18, 2021 · The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson crucially centers an Indigenous woman’s creative vision. But Purcell’s reliance on leveraging the pain of marginalized people as a marker of humanity feels outdated and detracts from its own ideals.
