The Nightingale: watch the trailer for the Babadook director's brutal new film – video

Described by the Guardian as ‘a particularly brutal serving of Tasmanian gothic’, the second film by Australian director Jennifer Kent is set in 1825 Van Diemen’s Land: a horrific and violent period in history, during which the state’s Indigenous population was all but annihilated. It is in this penal colony that Irishwoman Claire (Aisling Franciosi) finds herself, freed after serving her sentence. But as revealed in the Nightingale’s first trailer, things take a dark, tense and violent turn

The Nightingale review: Babadook director delivers devilish revenge tale

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