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‘The Legend of Molly Johnson’ Review: A Didactic But Compelling Feminist Western

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Revising and updating Henry Lawson’s 1892 short story “The Drover’s Wife,” writer/director/star Leah Purcell’s gritty Australian western “The Legend of Molly Johnson” takes Lawson’s story of an isolated woman fighting against the elements of the Australian outbreak and expands it, meditating on the relationship between Aboriginals and European colonizers in the nineteenth century.

While the film may be Purcell’s directorial debut, it is also adapted from her play — and subsequent novel — of the same name.

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