TheNightingale is out today.
ADVERTISEMENT Jennifer Kent’s directorial debut, The Babadook, won countless accolades in 2014, and in her long-awaited follow-up, Kent’s protagonists face an even more terrifying monster. Set in 1825, The Nightingale opens on Clare , an Irish prisoner serving time in Tasmania. When her husband attempts to free her from her abusive captor, Clare is graphically gang-raped by British soldiers in front of him and her child, both of whom are brutally murdered immediately thereafter.
From there, the film doesn’t get any easier to watch. Clare teams up with Billy , an Aboriginal man facing his own trauma and grief, to track down the soldiers and enact revenge. Billy’s arrival adds a necessary conversation to the film—one about the horrific treatment of Aboriginal people during the colonization of Australia.
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