Warwick Thorntonis a master maker of images.
Thorntons eye can find the beauty in a window frame.
We never really do.
Cate Blanchett and Aswan Reid in ‘The New Boy’The Veterans
One thing she has done is take over.
When he went, they just didnt tell anyone.
George isnt going to betray her.
Dont stuff it up for me.
A photograph of her own children sits by her bed, where she can weep over it in private.
Mailman, always an actor of tremendous warmth, is heart-breaking here.
But Sister Eileen is also a woman of a strong, straightforward belief.
She longs for a miracle.
But does anyone really want to deal with miracles, let alone a Second Coming?
What she really wants is to get in the olive harvest.
For a woman who has given herself to the Lord, Sister Eileen is vigorously physical.
Her history is written on her body.
This is not just a film about a boy with magical fingers.
With few words, Thornton layers complex metaphysical ideas that can never be resolved.
She has seen him do the same to a tree.
How can it be that his punctured hands heal inexplicably overnight?
Just not these invisible things: they dont belong here.
Except, of course, that they are what truly belong, embedded in the land and its people.
