
Old fashioned melodrama of a country boy taken advantage of by a couple of city slickers, during one of the periodic droughts that affect Australia, as a result his family is driven into disaster..

Franklyn Barrett’s 1920 lament arrives like a sun-bleached bone you stumble across while hiking: ragged, stark, humming with stories you almost don’t want to hear yet can’t ignore. Shot on the baked flats outside Dubbo with the mercury nudging 110°F, The Breaking of the Drought is less a narrative than a weather patt...

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Franklyn Barrett

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" Franklyn Barrett’s 1920 lament arrives like a sun-bleached bone you stumble across while hiking: ragged, stark, humming with stories you almost don’t want to hear yet can’t ignore. Shot on the baked flats outside Dubbo with the mercury nudging 110°F, The Breaking of the Drought is less a narrative than a weather pattern—dry, relentless, capable of eroding scruples the way sand-blast glass. From the first iris-in, the film announces its lineage: a hybrid of Victorian penny dreadful and nascent..."
Nan Taylor
Jack North, Arthur Shirley, Bland Holt, Franklyn Barrett
Australia


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