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Charlie's Country played to full houses, standing ovations and wonderful reviews, and won the Best Actor in Un Certain Regard for David Gulpilil. Charlie's Country is a part of the Country suite of projects, along with associated feature documentary Another Country (as told by David Gulpilil) and the experiential work Still Our Country .
Written by Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil as a collaborative project, CHARLIES COUNTRY stars Gulpilil as blackfella Charlie, who is getting older, and is out of sorts. The governments intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing ...
Charlie is the protagonist of the film. An aging Yolngu man living in a remote community of Aboriginal Australians strictly controlled by white police, Charlie is friendly with many people but spends most of his time alone. Charlie reluctantly helps the police track criminals who have fled into the bush. As a boy, Charlie danced for the Queen ...
Charlie's Country is a deceptively simple film, with very little action and a virtually absent soundtrack-but it's much more than that. Full Review | Jun 20, 2017.
In Charlie's Country, the negative consequences of colonization are shown through the poverty, poor health outcomes, addiction, police harassment, and lack of political and economic power associated with Charlie's life in his outstation community. Although some people will argue that colonization is something that happened in the past, Charlie's ability to live a fulfilling life continues to be impacted by the ongoing colonial attitudes of the white settlers, who treat Charlie and other ...
Jun 5, 2015 · Using a combination of bleak realism, fatalistic humor and a healthy dose of sentimentality, Mr. de Heer traces the downward spiral of a man who has become a refugee in his own homeland. The star ...
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