Posted on May 26th, 2009 by troy | Comments Off
ABORIGINAL director Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah, a tale of young love in a troubled indigenous community, was awarded the Camera d’Or first film prize at the Cannes festival….May 25th 2009
Thornton’s feature takes an unflinching look at the problems facing Australia’s remote Aboriginal communities: violence, substance abuse and poverty.
Shot in a derelict Aboriginal community near Alice Springs, it follows the slow, shy courtship between a boy who spends his time sniffing petrol and lost in music, and a girl forced to care for her ailing grandmother.
His ability to connect us to these wayward teens across cultural boundaries and without the use of dialogue but with music is testament to his skill as a storyteller. It is also testament to how strong this soundtrack is and one of the most moving parts in the movie features Troy Cassar-Daley’s version of Night Blindness.
The movie is being screened at selected theatres throughout Australia and you can purchase the soundtrack for Samson and Delilah or Troy’s version of night Blindness is on his album Long Way Home available on Liberation music/ITunes.