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A film about the Port Arthur massacre, focusing on the gunman, was always going to be controversial, as Justin Kurzel well knows. The acclaimed director lives in Tasmania. He met his wife Essie Davis, born and bred Tasmanian, in the year of the massacre. They moved back there four years ago.
“I have felt and seen the effect on that community,” says Kurzel in his first Australian interview about his new movie,
Nitram, which has its world debut at the Grand Lumiere Theatre in Cannes on Friday. “It’s very difficult for people to talk about. There is a wound that is so deep.”
Director defends Australia gun massacre film at Cannes
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