Film review The Drover’s Wife: the legend of Molly Johnson
written and directed by, and starring, Leah Purcell by Wallace McKitrick The Drover’s Wife is a powerful and important work. Reviewers have generally responded well, though often with glib phrases that undervalue the film-maker’s motives and achievement. For example, a UK critic refers to ‘hard-scrabble lives eked out in this unforgiving land.’ Unforgiving? For thousands of years, people had been …
