Along the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), who has his own traumatic backstory. In a recent interview Baykali Ganambarr, the breakout Aboringinal star of the Nightingale, revealed that there were psychologists on set to help the cast as they enacted brutal rapes and murders. Arguably, it’s as nasty and unflinching a post-colonial revenge fantasy as a historical genocide demands. The Nightingale remains an extraordinary film, powered by political and historical fury. The use of Gaelic and Palawa kani and a melancholic final sequence add elegiac notes to the righteous anger.

Source: The Irish Times November 27, 2019 10:07 UTC