Word: schepisi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singular. His skill at wringing terror out of emptiness and silence, his sense of the fragility and smallness of Europeans cast up in the vastness of the Australian landscape, give the film a distinction that could well bring him an international reputation. Along with Noyce and talented Realist Fred Schepisi (The Devil's Play ground, Jimmy Blacksmith), Weir forms a nucleus of directorial talent that could do for Australia what the New Wave did for France in the '50s and the Prague Film School graduates did for Czechoslovakia in the '60s ? make it at least an aes thetic force...