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A technical theatre student at Swinburne College, Gillian Armstrong studied filmmaking at the Melbourne and Australian Film and Television School, paying her tuition by working as a waitress. She functioned in several secondary technical capacities in the Australian film industry, then she made her mainstream directorial bow with the 1977 short The Singer and the Dancer, a soft-pedaled feminist tract which won an award at the Sydney Festival. Her first feature was My Brilliant Career (1979), which combined a modern sensibility concerning male/female relationships with the glossy romanticism of a 19th-century novel. Featuring a star-making turn by Judy Davis, My Brilliant Career garnered seven Australian Film Institute awards, firmly securing Armstrong's reputation and future in her native country. Armstrong's next major feature, the American-financed Mrs. Soffel (1984), starred Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson. The real-life tale of a scandalous love affair between a prison warden's wife and a prisoner, it was moderately well-received. After directing two concert documentaries, Armstrong returned to Australia to make High Tide (1987), a drama about a woman (Judy Davis) struggling to reconcile herself with both her past and the daughter she abandoned at birth. Both that film and Armstrong's next major feature, the critically-acclaimed The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992), went largely unknown outside of her native country. It was with her 1994 adaptation of Little Women that Armstrong earned a substantial degree of international recognition; featuring strong performances by the likes of Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, and Claire Danes, the film became one of the most popular of the year. Armstrong followed this success three years later with Oscar and Lucinda, an adaptation of the Peter Carey novel of the same name. Starring Ralph Fiennes and a then-relatively unknown Cate Blanchett as two misfits who fall in love in 19th-century Australia, the film was a model of strong production values and stellar performances, but received a mixed reception on both sides of the Pacific. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (2006)
Length: 82min
Florence Broadhurst was best known as a leading Australian interior designer who turned a small business into one of the nation's largest wallpaper companies. However, Broadhurst's past was something of a mystery to many people, and not without reason...
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Charlotte Gray (2001)
Cast: Michael Gambon
Tags: War Romance War Romance Resistance Film
Length: 121min
Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks, this drama, set in Europe during World War II, stars Cate Blanchett as Charlotte, a Scottish woman living in London. Charlotte falls in love with Peter (Rupert Penry-Jones), a handsome RAF pilot,...
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Death Defying Acts (2007)
Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones Timothy Spall Guy Pearce
Tags: Docudrama Drama
Length: 96min
My Brilliant Career and Oscar and Lucinda director Gillian Armstrong explores the final feat of the greatest illusionist ever to deceive a live audience in this docudrama concerning Harry Houdini's obsessive quest to find proof of an afterlife. The...
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Not Fourteen Again (1996)
Tags: Biography Culture & Society
Length: 110min
In 1976, Australian filmmaker Gillian Armstrong made Smokes and Lollies, a documentary profiling the lives, thoughts and feelings of three rambunctious, rebellious working class 14-year-old girls. Four years later, Armstrong returned to the girls'...
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Little Women (1994)
Cast: Winona Ryder Susan Sarandon Samantha Mathis Kirsten Dunst Gabriel Byrne Trini Alvarado
Tags: Coming-of-Age Romance Drama Period Film Family Drama
Length: 118min
Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about a family of women in Civil War-era New England is again brought to the screen in this adaptation. The focus is on the March sisters, four young girls raised by their mother (Susan Sarandon) after their father...
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Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Cast: Ralph Fiennes Tom Wilkinson
Tags: Romance Drama Period Film Romantic Adventure
Length: 132min
Australian director Gillian Armstrong directed this Laura Jones adaptation of Peter Carey's 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel. In a lengthy flashback, Oscar Hopkins' great grandson (Geoffrey Rush) narrates the family history that led to his birth. On an...
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High Tide (1987)
Cast: Judy Davis Russell Boyd
Tags: Family Drama Drama
Length: 120min
Gillian Armstrong directed this powerful and moving film containing a brilliant performance by Judy Davis. The story takes place in the small New South Wales seaside village of Eden. Davis is Lillie, who is renting a run-down trailer as she waits for...
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The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
Cast: Kerry Fox
Tags: Comedy Drama Marriage Drama Family Drama
Length: 105min
Gillian Armstrong directed this quietly bittersweet and coldly ironic examination of the death throes of a crumbling marriage. Set in the lush summer light of Sydney, the film examines the dying marriage of Beth (Lisa Harrow), a middle-aged writer...
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Fires Within (1991)
Cast: Greta Scacchi Gillian Armstrong Vincent D'Onofrio Jimmy Smits
Tags: Romantic Drama Political Drama Drama Romance
Length: 90min
A Cuban woman who escapes to America finds herself in political, financial, and romantic jeopardy in this taut drama. Cuban refugee Isabel (Greta Scacchi) flees her country and makes her way to Miami after her husband, Nestor (Jimmy Smits), a...
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Bingo, Bridesmaids And Braces (1988)
Length: 92min
Though she has made quite a name for herself with theatrical films like My Brilliant Career, Australian director Gillian Anderson got her start making a documentary about three girls growing up in Adelaide. The first one followed them when they were...
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