Observations on Film Art No. 33
Professor Jeff Smith explores Gillian Armstrong's use of lighting, costuming, and decor to upend conventionally masculine mythologies in MY BRILLIANT CAREER.
Directed by Gillian Armstrong • 1979 • Australia
Starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill
For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin’s novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the co...
