Word: sybylla
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...BRILLIANT CAREER is almost a brilliant movie. Judy Davis's stunning performance as Sybylla Melvin, a woman who struggles with the career-vs.-marriage option, transforms a simple story into an honest and captivating film. But even her sensitive portrait of a person who has the courage to buck convention cannot completely transcend a simplistic script. Sybylla defies the limitations of Victorian society by ultimately choosing to pursue a career as an author; the film's flaw is not this decision, but the manner in which Sybylla reaches...
...Sybylla's story, which takes place in turn-of-the-century Austrialia, is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Miles Foreman. The rugged setting reinforces Sybylla's spirited independence, which manifests itself in a need to pursue her identity through writing--a persistent calling that prevents her from surrendering to her love for a man. When Harry Beecham first proposes to her, Sybylla asks him to wait for two years so that she may explore the world and live on her own. When he needs her, she promises, she will marry him; and she professes her love...