Un Certain Regard for “Samson and Delilah”

Selected to screen in Certain Regard today, Samson and Delilah by Warwick Thornton is the first feature from the Australian filmmaker, and thus in competition for a Camera D’or. The title is taken directly from the Old Testament, which, in the film, refers to two adolescents growing up in an Aborigine community who find out how cruel the outside world can be. The two promising young actors, Rowan McNamara and Marissa Gibson drive this road movie through the outback country, which Warwick Thornton knows well as he used it for the set of his previous shorts, Mimi and Green Bush.