My Brilliant Career (1979)

1979

Action / Biography / Drama / Romance

IMDb Rating 7/10

Plot summary

Australia, 1890s. A young woman, Sybylla Melvyn, is stuck in a rural area but dreams of a career in the arts, ideally as a writer. Her ambitions are at odds with her family's aims for her and with broader society's views on a woman's path in life. She meets a young man and the two are soon close. Will she have to choose between her career and him?—grantss