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The New Boy
In 1940s Australia, a 9-year-old aboriginal orphan arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun, and his presence disturbs its delicately balanced world.
Year: 2023
Genre: Drama
Studio: Dirty Films, Scarlett Pictures, Fremantle Australia
Director: Warwick Thornton
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair, Aswan Reid, Kenneth Radley, Shane Mckenzie Brady
Crew: Cate Blanchett (Producer), Warwick Thornton (Director), Georgina Pym (Producer), Andrew Upton (Producer), Kath Shelper (Producer), Warwick Thornton (Writer)
Runtime: 116 minutes
Release: Jul 06, 2023
IMDb: 5.60/10 by 18 users
Popularity: 16
Country: Australia, United Kingdom
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 780,646
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Set against a backdrop of a strongly colonial and white Australia, we are rather violently introduced to a young, blonde, Aboriginal lad (Aswan Reid) who is conked out by a boomerang and awakens to find himself in the care of "Sister Eileen" (Cate Blanchett) and "Sister Mum" (Deborah Mailman) at a remote orphanage. She is pretty devout and he is very much in tune with nature - both people of faith, but not the same kind. The arrival of a large wooden crucifix to top their altar seems to focus both of them on what now becomes a rather dry and simplistic tale of spirituality. Reid does come across well. There is a spontaneity and naturalness to his performance, but Blanchett over-eggs just about all of the rest of it. She does this type of role well - shorn hair, manic eyes, slightly eccentric characterisation - but here there's just not enough story for her (or us) to get the teeth into. I got the sense that there was something almost "Oliver Twist" about the lad. Blonde? Sent away? Did he have a secret identity? That's not the story, though - and when he suffers his own rather personal misfortune at the end, I felt a rather overwhelming dislike of "Eileen" and her superstition-ridden church. Too be fair, this isn't a film that doesn't provoke a response - but with sparse dialogue and little character development, it's not really much more than a beautifully photographed vehicle for Blanchett to indulge herself and for Reid to be a boy facing a confusing future.