‘The New Boy’ Review: Cate Blanchett Is the Star But Not the Best Part of Warwick Thornton’s Striking Drama About Spiritual Survival

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‘The New Boy’ Review: Cate Blanchett Is the Star But Not the Best Part of Warwick Thornton’s Striking Drama About Spiritual Survival
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Gifted discovery Aswan Reid plays the title character, a First Nations Australian thrust from tribal life into the ordered 1940s world of a remote monastery orphanage run by a rule-breaking nun.

, won the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 2009. But the Indigenous Australian director’s command of visual storytelling has possibly never been as striking as it is in the rural setting of his third narrative feature,.

Frequently, the rolling hills and wheat fields, the harvest scenes, shots of a fire tearing through crops or even a steam train chugging across the landscape seem a direct tip of the hat to the descriptive beauty of Néstor Almendros’ influential work on

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