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Trailer
TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG + Q&A
Sat
26
Sat Nov 26 6:00 PM
Arc Cinema
Allocated Seating
124 Mins
2019 | DCP | Australia, UK | D: Justin Kurzel
Inspired by Peter Carey’s Man Booker prize-winning novel of the same name, True History of the Kelly Gang is an epic, fictionalised retelling of the life of legendary Australian bushranger Ned Kelly. Lauded by critics and winner of 3 AACTA Awards, the film shatters the mythology of the notorious icon to reveal the essence behind his life and forces a country to stare back into the ashes of its brutal past.
Written for the screen by Shaun Grant (Snowtown) and directed by the award-winning Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Nitram), it stars a spectacular cast of Australian and international stars including BAFTA-winner George MacKay as Ned Kelly, Oscar-winner Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult, Essie Davis, Claudia Karvan, Charlie Hunnam and the late Uncle Jack Charles.
True History of the Kelly Gang is a tour-de-force of epic filmmaking: a dream, or nightmare, about Ned, his family, Australia, manhood, womanhood, and how hard it is for poor people to escape the class they were born into.
This title is held in the NFSA collection.
‘Ned Kelly gets a ripping reinvention in director Justin Kurzel's feverish punk Western, a raw rebel yell of a movie that combines visceral violence with a kind of delirious, scrappy poetry’ – The Hollywood Reporter
Arrive early to visit our Australians & Hollywood exhibition, which features True History of the Kelly Gang, and hear from one of our curators about the film and exhibition.
Following the screening, director Justin Kurzel via Zoom and photographer Matthew Thorne in person will join us for a Q&A session.
Inspired by Peter Carey’s Man Booker prize-winning novel of the same name, True History of the Kelly Gang is an epic, fictionalised retelling of the life of legendary Australian bushranger Ned Kelly. Lauded by critics and winner of 3 AACTA Awards, the film shatters the mythology of the notorious icon to reveal the essence behind his life and forces a country to stare back into the ashes of its brutal past.
Written for the screen by Shaun Grant (Snowtown) and directed by the award-winning Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Nitram), it stars a spectacular cast of Australian and international stars including BAFTA-winner George MacKay as Ned Kelly, Oscar-winner Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult, Essie Davis, Claudia Karvan, Charlie Hunnam and the late Uncle Jack Charles.
True History of the Kelly Gang is a tour-de-force of epic filmmaking: a dream, or nightmare, about Ned, his family, Australia, manhood, womanhood, and how hard it is for poor people to escape the class they were born into.
This title is held in the NFSA collection.
‘Ned Kelly gets a ripping reinvention in director Justin Kurzel's feverish punk Western, a raw rebel yell of a movie that combines visceral violence with a kind of delirious, scrappy poetry’ – The Hollywood Reporter
‘This is myth-making, splattered in blood, scored with an electric guitar, and enacted with such brazen bigness that you wouldn't be surprised if the cast assembled for a curtain call at the end’ – RogerEbert.com
Arrive early to visit our Australians & Hollywood exhibition, which features True History of the Kelly Gang, and hear from one of our curators about the film and exhibition.
Following the screening, director Justin Kurzel via Zoom and photographer Matthew Thorne in person will join us for a Q&A session.