

The Nightingale
Her song will not be silenced.
In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $855.8K
- Language
- Irish
- australia
- rape
- revenge
- murder
- colonisation
- brutality
- racial prejudice
- rape and revenge
- woman director
- australian aboriginal
- tasmania
- 19th century
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival25 Jan 2019
- Theatrical (limited)R2 Aug 2019
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1829 Nov 2019
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMA 15+Adelaide Film Festival13 Oct 2018
- PremiereMA 15+Melbourne International Film Festival4 Aug 2019
- TheatricalMA 15+29 Aug 2019
- Digital / OTTMA 15+1 Nov 2019
- PhysicalMA 15+4 Dec 2019
CanadaCA
- Digital / OTT19 Nov 2019
BrazilBR
- Theatrical23 Dec 2021
FranceFR
- Digital / OTTOCS9 Mar 2021
- Digital / OTTVOD15 Apr 2021
- PhysicalDVD & Blu-Ray15 Apr 2021
GermanyDE
- Physical1828 May 2020
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1829 Nov 2019
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Film Festival6 Sept 2018
- Theatrical (limited)Milan23 Sept 2018
JapanJP
- TheatricalR15+20 Mar 2020
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1831 Jan 2019
New ZealandNZ
- Digital / OTT161 Aug 2020
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The Nightingale was released on 23 September 2018.
Audience reviews
4- S6/10
SWITCH.
6/14/2019
Even with its flaws, this feminist Western is too violent, too dirty, too bloody, and too barbaric to be forgotten easily. When the lights in the cinema came on, the woman next to me was crying and, a few rows over, someone murmured that they had now had PTSD. 'The Nightingale’ is not an easy film to watch and certainly not one to expect to come out of laughing or feeling terrific. But it will make you will feel som…
- S8/10
Stephen Campbell
12/14/2019
**_A superb, albeit harrowing drama about colonial violence, misogyny, and racism_** >_Whether the Blacks deserve any mercy at the hands of the pioneering squatters is an open question, but that they get none is certain. They are a doomed race, and before many years they will be completely wiped out of the land._ - Harold Finch-Hatton; _Advance Australia! An Account of Eight Year's Work, Wandering and Amusement…
- M8/10
Manuel São Bento
12/30/2019
Jennifer Kent delivered one of the best horror movies of the decade, The Babadook. With The Nightingale, only her second feature film, she offers one of the most visually brutal, shocking, jaw-dropping, violent revenge stories ever. This movie is the definition of “not for everyone.” Rating: A-
- B10/10
badelf
2/2/2026
**The Nightingale** (2018) *Directed by Jennifer Kent* Jennifer Kent's *The Nightingale* is a cold, hard look at colonialism, unflinching in its depiction of the brutality that empires are built upon. Set in 1825 Tasmania, it follows Clare (Aisling Franciosi), a young Irish convict, and Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), an Aboriginal tracker, through the wilderness as they pursue a British officer who has committed un…
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