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1. • • Billed as a feminist revenge tale with an Indigenous lens, the movie deploys its critiques of domestic abuse and racism with little nuance. Villains use the n-word and commit rape; stoic heroes serve as martyrs who can do no wrong.
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   Is the Drover's wife The Legend of Molly Johnson a feminist novel?

   • Leah Purcell's Australian Western 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson' reimagines a classic of colonial literature from an Indigenous feminist perspective, depicting the struggles of an 1890s woman suspended between two cultures.

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   Is the Drover's wife based on a true story?

   • 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.

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   Who plays the Drover's wife?

   • Purcell plays the drover’s wife, Molly Johnson, unearthing an Indigenous heritage for the character. Johnson is burdened by a dark secret and Purcell imbues the role with a determined strength, her posture and gaze expressing fortitude, grit and constant vigilance, whether she is carrying her broom or her rifle.

   The Drover’s Wife: the Legend of Molly Johnson brings a Black woman’s

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   • Picked up for North America by Samuel Goldwyn Films ahead of its SXSW premiere, The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson (the awkward title specifically includes no colon) continues in the vein of recent historical Westerns from Australia like Sweet Country, True History of the Kelly Gang and The Furnace.

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   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...

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   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...

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   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...

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   • Director: Leah Purcell

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    May 13, 2022 · The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is a harrowing Australian western told through a feminist, indigenous lens. Lean Purcell writes, directs and stars in this adaptation of her own stage play, an electrifying re-telling of a classic Australian tale.

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    The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson occasionally struggles to cohere, but writer-director-star Leah Purcell offers a unique, compelling perspective on historic myths. Read...

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