Английская Википедия:Beautiful Kate

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Infobox film Beautiful Kate is a 2009 Australian drama film directed by Rachel Ward and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown, Maeve Dermody and Sophie Lowe. Ward adapted the script from a 1982 novel of the same name by Newton Thornburg; this was the first novel by Thornburg used for a movie since Cutter's Way (1981). The film was shot on location in the Flinders Ranges.

The film premiered in June 2009 at the Sydney Film Festival and was released in limited release across Australia on 6 August 2009.

Plot

Writer Ned Kendall is returning to the remote and isolated family home inhabited by his sister Sally, to say goodbye to his father, Bruce, who is dying. Ned also brings his fiancée, Toni, who has trouble getting used to the isolation and harshness of rural Australia.

Ned starts reliving memories of his childhood, many involving his beautiful twin sister Kate, and his older brother Cliff. These memories awaken long-buried secrets from the family's past. He begins writing, and his fiancée reads that he had an awkward sexual encounter with Kate, and leaves him without giving him a chance to explain.

Kate continues to entice Ned despite his obvious revulsion, and after a drunken night out with friends, Ned goes for a swim in the family dam. He is joined by Kate, who seduces and subsequently has sex with him on the banks of the dam. Ned shows immediate remorse while Kate remains unperturbed.

After Ned's refusal to have further sexual relations with Kate, Kate instigates a fight between the brothers by suggesting that Ned made unwanted advances towards her. As punishment, Bruce makes Ned accompany Kate to the Christmas dance. During the dance, Ned leaves Kate, and she is left to go home with Cliff. Ned leaves separately and on his way home he finds his sister's dead body in Cliff's crashed car, and then finds that Cliff has hanged himself.

Fearing that Ned will tell Bruce the truth about Kate, Sally reveals that she knew of Ned and Kate's secret. She also reveals that the car's clock stopped on impact of the crash and no one could figure out what took Kate and Cliff so long to get home from the dance. Sally speculates that Kate also had sexual relations with Cliff, who then crashed the car in which Kate died. She tells Ned she believes that Cliff's guilt from his part in Kate's death was multiplied knowing he had committed incest. But Bruce still believes that Kate was an innocent victim, the best of his children, and she doesn't want him shattered with the truth.

Ned then makes amends with Bruce and says that he is sorry for blaming him over Cliff's suicide. He doesn't tell Bruce the truth about Kate and lets him die still believing that Kate was everything he thought she was. Before he leaves, he tells Sally that Bruce died never knowing that she was his greatest achievement.

Cast

• Ben Mendelsohn as Ned Kendall
• Rachel Griffiths as Sally Kendall
• Bryan Brown as Bruce Kendall
• Sophie Lowe as Kate Kendall
• Maeve Dermody as Toni
• Josh McFarlane as Cliff Kendall
• Scott O'Donnell as Young Ned
• Heloise Baker as Young Sally

Release

Beautiful Kate screened at the Antipodean Film Festival in Saint Tropez, France, in October 2010, and was released in 29 cinemas in Australia.

Reception

Box office

Beautiful Kate was and grossed $1,065,656 at the box office. Until the debut of the Paul Hogan-starring Charlie & Boots in early September, Beautiful Kate held the title of the largest opening weekend for an Australian film for 2009.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an 84% approval rating based on reviews from 31 critics, with an average rating of 6.8 out of 10.

Beautiful Kate received four and a half stars from both Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton on At The Movies. Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald rated it four and a half stars out of five and wrote, "At times the action slows to the point where escape seems the most enticing option. Don't take it, for Ward's tough-minded and uniquely Australian version of Southern Gothic does reward your perseverance by at last making you care." Richard Kuipers of Variety called it "a visually beautiful and emotionally rewarding study of a dying patriarch and his estranged son". Megan Lehmann of The Hollywood Reporter described it as "a provocative slice of Southern Gothic refried Aussie-style". Frank Hatherley of Screen Daily wrote that it is a "handsome and intense love story" that is "awash with Ward's own spiky, brittle dialogue, delivered with relish by her cast". Philip French of The Guardian wrote, "The film is well acted but both blunt and awkward." Also writing in The Guardian, Steve Rose rated it two out of four stars and said that it "doesn't do a great deal wrong, but despite broaching taboo subjects, feels too arthouse-by-numbers".

Accolades

Award	Category	Subject	Result
AACTA Awards (2009 AFI Awards)	Best Film	Bryan Brown	Шаблон:Nom
		Leah Churchill-Brown	Шаблон:Nom
	Best Direction	Rachel Ward	Шаблон:Nom
	Best Adapted Screenplay		Шаблон:Nom
	Best Actor	Ben Mendelsohn	Шаблон:Nom
	Best Actress	Sophie Lowe	Шаблон:Nom
	Best Supporting Actor	Bryan Brown	Шаблон:Nom
	Best Supporting Actress	Maeve Dermody	Шаблон:Nom
		Rachel Griffiths	Шаблон:Won
	Best Cinematography	Andrew Commis	Шаблон:Nom
Australian Cinematographers Society	Cinematographer of the Year		Шаблон:Won
	Golden Tripod		Шаблон:Won
ADG Award	Best Direction in a Feature Film	Rachel Ward	Шаблон:Nom
ASE Award	Best Editing on a Feature Film	Veronika Jenet	Шаблон:Nom
FCCA Awards	Best Film	Bryan Brown	Шаблон:Nom
		Leah Churchill-Brown	Шаблон:Nom
	Best Director	Rachel Ward	Шаблон:Nom
	Best Actor – Male	Ben Mendelsohn	Шаблон:Nom
	Best Supporting Actor – Male	Bryan Brown	Шаблон:Won
	Best Supporting Actor – Female	Maeve Dermody	Шаблон:Nom
		Rachel Griffiths	Шаблон:Won
		Sophie Lowe	Шаблон:Nom
	Best Cinematography	Andrew Commis	Шаблон:Nom
	Best Music Score	Tex Perkins	Шаблон:Nom
Inside Film Awards	Best Direction	Rachel Ward	Шаблон:Nom
	Best Cinematography	Andrew Commis	Шаблон:Won
	Best Editing	Veronika Jenet	Шаблон:Nom
Palm Springs International Film Festival	New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize	Rachel Ward	Шаблон:Nom
Sydney Film Festival	Best Film		Шаблон:Nom

Soundtrack

Track listing

1. "Beautiful Kate (Main Theme)" - 3:20
2. "Wilpena Pound" - 1:45
3. "The Shed" - 0:33
4. "Weeping Windmill" - 2:32
5. "The Old School Room" - 1:10
6. "The Memory" - 1:18
7. "Room Service" - 1:33
8. "Beautiful Kate (Kiss and Make Up)" - 0:59
9. "The Chase" - 2:23
10. "Ned Walks Back" - 1:28
11. "Always On My Mind"/"Finding Kate" (with Blind Dog Taylor and One More Mile) - 3:01
12. "Beautiful Kate (The Dam)" - 1:04
13. "You're Not Gonna Tell Him Are You?" - 1:16
14. "Forgiveness" - 0:57
15. "Washing Bruce" - 1:46
16. "Beautiful Kate (Goodbye)" - 1:17
17. "This Little Bird" - 1:58
18. "Closing Titles (Remembering Russell Dunlop)" - 5:34

• All tracks written and performed by Tex Perkins and Murray Paterson, except track 11 which was written by Johnny Christopher, Mark James, Wayne Carson Thompson, Perkins and Paterson and track 17 which was written by John D. Loudermilk.

See also

• Cinema of Australia

External links

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