continues a season of classic films from Australia.
This week starring Susannah Fowle and John Waters Sent by her hard-working mother to attend Australia's most exclusive girls' school in turn-of-the-century Melbourne, Laura finds that it is not just her home-made clothes and country manners which set her apart from her snobbish, well-off schoolmates. For she is gifted with a strength and a brilliant musical talent which gradually allow her to transcend her unhappy situation, helped by the love of the school's beauty,
Evelyn. This moving portrait of girlhood emerges as an optimistic and triumphant affirmation of the human spirit in one of the most original and visually beautiful of all
Australian films.
Screenplay by ELEANOR WITCOMBE from the novel by HENRY RICHARDSON HANDEL Produced by PHILLIP ADAMS
Directed by BRUCE BERESFORD
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