![]() ![]() Afterwards, O’Neil informs the young boy that he’s seen the father (Ben Corbett) who called him away from the peephole wearing a dress in town. We first meet the young lad (unlike Kelly, blonde and always clean shaven here) watching his mother Ellen servicing Sergeant O'Neil (Charlie Hunnam) in a shed, payment for his ignoring her moonshine business. ![]() Director Justin Kurzel ("Macbeth," "Assassin's Creed") along with his “Snowtown” screenwriter Shaun Grant have refashioned the legend of Australia’s most notorious outlaw like a cross between Todd Haynes’s “Velvet Goldmine” and Gerald Kargl’s stylish 1983 Austrian serial killer movie “Angst.” Painting Ned Kelly (George MacKay, "1917") as a bisexual cross dresser in love with his mother (“The Babadook’s” Essie Davis) is certainly an unusual approach, but it is telling that the film works best during its first half, chronicling the events which formed the young Ned (Orlando Schwerdt). ![]()
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