Entertainment
Five languages and 55-degree days: the challenges of making The Furnace – Sydney Morning Herald
The Furnace is a slice of historic fiction about the cameleers who came from Afghanistan and India to provide desert transport to prospectors during the Gold Rush.
Indiewire’s Eric Kohn saw more of a parallel with other Australian films, such as Sweet Country and The Nightingale, that “capture the simmering anger and resentment between white settlers and the Indigenous people in their crosshairs in disturbing detail”. He singled out for praise Ahmed Malek’s performance “a remarkable blend of trembling fear and uncertainty” along with the work of cinematographers Bonnie Elliott and Michael McDermott.
Roderick MacKay says making The Furnace was the hardest …
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