NZIFF: Irish convict seeks vengeance in 1825 Tasmania in The Nightingale
(WorldNews New Zealand)

OPINION: Jennifer Kent`s follow-up to 2014`s The Babadook, period thriller The Nightingale (2018), follows Clare (Aisling Franciosi), a young Irish convict out for revenge after she is gang-raped while her husband and young daughter are killed by a band of British soldiers, led by the sadistic Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin), in 1825 Tasmania. What soon follows is a slow-simmering cat-and-mouse chase between the soldiers...