The director screened the first 40-minute episode of his new TV show at SXSW Sydney, made from footage from his divisive 2008 film Australia. But is it any good?
uring Covid-19 lockdowns, when many of us were baking sourdough, crocheting beanies and reminiscing about old flames, the prolific Australian film-maker Baz Luhrmann was ruminating about his biggest”, Australia was a film the auteur had struggled to get over the line before its release in November 2008.
The opening credits, now animated by Indigenous creatives, are put to original music by the Aria-winning singer Budjerah, while the sweeping opening shots of’s King George on the escarpment are accompanied by Anpuru, an exhilarating new song by soul duo Electric Fields – part of Luhrmann’s concerted effort to “work with all these young emerging musical artists and graphic artists” and “deepen” the film’s Indigenous perspective.
The biggest audience reaction – raucous laughter – came when Jackman’s Drover tipped a bucket of water over his bare, rippling, campfire-lit torso as Kidman watched agog from her tent. The scene doesn’t deviate from the original but the sight of Jackman’s torso clearly never gets old.
“The big focus was to take such a painful scar on the history of this nation and put it in a context whereby you would open audiences to that,” he said, adding Australia had been a commercial success at home and in Europe, but a box office failure in the US – something he hopes to rectify with Faraway Downs.Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for SXSW Sydney
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