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Warwick Thornton’s Indigenous Australian Western

Warwick Thornton’s Indigenous Australian Western

Published by Daniella Wilson

An experienced cinematographer before he turned to directing, Warwick Thornton has a feel for the Central Australian desert and the craggy MacDonnell Ranges that’s both epic and intimate. His refined sense of composition is directly informed by the landscape around Alice Springs where he grew up and his subcutaneous connection to it imbues his films with soulful beauty. Wolfram is no exception. A four-chapter saga of escape, pursuit and survival, the film, for all its brutality, ultimately becomes less a lament for stolen lands and stolen children than a stirring account of endurance. Family and community are the thematic foundation of this sequel of sorts to Thornton’s 2017 drama Sweet Country, again co-written by Steven McGregor and David Tranter. It picks up a few years after the events of the earlier film in and around the same fictional Northern Territory town of Henry, though all but two of the principal characters here are different. That gives the two movies the feel of a shared ancestral map, marked by overlaps and diverging tangents. Wolfram The Bottom …

The East Wind by Alexandria Warwick

The East Wind by Alexandria Warwick

Published by Jenni Sidey

Alexandria Warwick’s The East Wind arrives as the climactic finale to the Four Winds series, and it carries the weight of four books’ worth of mythology, romance, and hard-won wisdom about what it means to heal. This is not simply a retelling of Rapunzel meets Psyche and Cupid—it’s a profound exploration of trauma, self-worth, and the terrifying vulnerability required to trust another person after a lifetime of abuse. A Tower Made of More Than Stone Min of Marles exists in a cage that wears no visible bars. As an apothecary assistant to Lady Clarisse, she spends her days brewing potions from ingredients harvested from imprisoned immortal beings, including Eurus, the East Wind himself. Her world is measured in stuttered words, flinching movements, and the perpetual fear of doing something wrong. When Min impulsively frees Eurus from his cell, she expects gratitude. Instead, she’s stolen away to his remote island manor and forced into a new kind of captivity—one that will require her to confront not just Eurus’s demons, but her own. Warwick crafts Min’s character …