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Article: Freedom along the fence: Noyce's cinematic achievement.(Film review)(Movie Review)
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- March 16, 2003
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Rabbit-Proof Fence, 94 minutes, 2002, English and Australian languages; Evelyn Sampi. Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Kenneth Branagh. Directed by Phillip Noyce, from a true story by Doris Pilkington.
If I were to compile a short list of accomplished international feminist film directors, it would include Mira Nair, Jane Campion, Deepa Mehta, and now, the name of Phillip Noyce.
Gender doesn't matter, consciousness does.
After viewing, Rabbit-Proof Fence, last week--a favourite at the Toronto and Cannes Film Festivals last fall, one simply says "alleluia" to such work, coming to us in the winter of our discontents. Noyce's harrowing, strangely ...