Movie

Van Diemen's Land

2009 · 104 min

A grim, quietly harrowing trudge through cold wilderness that weighs on you long after it ends.

Tagline: Hunger is a strange silence
Overview: The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.
How it feels: Bleak, dark, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Survival, isolation, guilt, death
Content: Strong violence and gore. Mild language. No sexual content.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
isolation
guilt
death
violence
Places: wilderness
prison
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
single location
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex none