My Brilliant Career (DVD)
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My Brilliant Career holds a special place in the history of Australian cinema. It was the starting place for a number of careers, including Gillian Armstrong and Judy Davis. It was more successful than the makers expected, even being invited to the Cannes Film Festival.
The story starts (in 1897) with a young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) composing the foreword to her novel, which has the bombastic title of My Brilliant Career. Sybylla has intentions of having a career in some artistic pursuit, which is more than her parents can imagine, given their straitened circumstances. Sybylla is shocked when her mother suggests that she get a position as a general servant. Relief arrives, however, in the form of a summons from her grandmother (Aileen Britton). Her grandmother disapproves strongly of Sybylla's free will, and would like to see her married off to a suitable man, such as Frank Jordan (Robert Grubb). Sybylla's not having it, particularly as she doesn't have any respect for Frank. Her grandmother's attitudes are a little more readily understood when we know that two of her daughters married for love: one being Sybylla's mother (who married 'beneath' her, to a man who drinks, and is not a successful farmer), and Helen (Wendy Hughes), who is living with the shame that her husband left her. Despite her rebellion against the role she's expected to play, Sybylla is beginning to enjoy herself, and to look moderately presentable, when her life changes again...
EXTRA FEATURES
Audio Commentary-Gillian Armstrong (Director)
Interviews-Crew-Gillian Armsrong (Director), Margaret Fink (Producer)
Featurette-My Brilliant Career In Cannes (1980 ABC Newsreel)
Featurette-The Miles Franklin Story
DVD-ROM Extras-Study Guide
My Brilliant Career (DVD)
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My Brilliant Career holds a special place in the history of Australian cinema. It was the starting place for a number of careers, including Gillian Armstrong and Judy Davis. It was more successful than the makers expected, even being invited to the Cannes Film Festival.
The story starts (in 1897) with a young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) composing the foreword to her novel, which has the bombastic title of My Brilliant Career. Sybylla has intentions of having a career in some artistic pursuit, which is more than her parents can imagine, given their straitened circumstances. Sybylla is shocked when her mother suggests that she get a position as a general servant. Relief arrives, however, in the form of a summons from her grandmother (Aileen Britton). Her grandmother disapproves strongly of Sybylla's free will, and would like to see her married off to a suitable man, such as Frank Jordan (Robert Grubb). Sybylla's not having it, particularly as she doesn't have any respect for Frank. Her grandmother's attitudes are a little more readily understood when we know that two of her daughters married for love: one being Sybylla's mother (who married 'beneath' her, to a man who drinks, and is not a successful farmer), and Helen (Wendy Hughes), who is living with the shame that her husband left her. Despite her rebellion against the role she's expected to play, Sybylla is beginning to enjoy herself, and to look moderately presentable, when her life changes again...
EXTRA FEATURES
Audio Commentary-Gillian Armstrong (Director)
Interviews-Crew-Gillian Armsrong (Director), Margaret Fink (Producer)
Featurette-My Brilliant Career In Cannes (1980 ABC Newsreel)
Featurette-The Miles Franklin Story
DVD-ROM Extras-Study Guide