Inspired by Peter Carey’s Man Booker prize winning novel, Justin Kurzel’s TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG shatters the mythology of the notorious icon to reveal the essence behind the life of Ned Kelly and force a country to stare back into the ashes of its brutal past.
George MacKay joins Mick Jagger and Heath Ledger in the club of actors who have played Ned Kelly, the 19th-Century Australian bushranger and bank robber. Spanning the younger years of Ned’s life to the time leading up to his death, the film explores the blurred boundaries between what is bad and what is good, and the motivations for the demise of its hero.
The latest retelling of his life story, adapted from Peter Carey’s novel, it examines how he is pushed into crime when his mother (Essie Davis from The Babadook) sells him to a bandit (Russell Crowe). The director, Justin Kurzel, is known for Snowtown and Macbeth, so expect some brutal conditions and bloody violence.
Youth and tragedy collide in the Kelly Gang.
True History of the Kelly Gang is in cinemas for a limited release from January 9, and on Stan from January 26.
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