Australia

Baz Luhrmann's 2008 film follows an Englishwoman who takes over a station in Australia. She has to drive the cattle to port. The Second World War is approaching. The film chooses epic scale; the narrative places the politics of the stolen generations beside its romance and uses a child as narrator. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman lead. The bombing of Darwin is staged. The running time is very long. Who it's for: those who like large-scale romantic epics. Who it's not for: viewers expecting Indigenous people at the centre of the narrative; the point of view rests mostly with the white characters.