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form y separately published work icon Nitram single work   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Nitram
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'NITRAM looks at the events leading up to one of the darkest chapters in Australian history in an attempt to understand why and how this atrocity occurred. Currently in production in Victoria.'

Source: Stan.

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Works about this Work

Devastating Portrait of a Killer David Stratton , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2 October 2021; (p. 13)

— Review of Nitram Shaun Grant , 2021 single work film/TV
'Nitram' Review : Story of Port Arthur Massacre Perpetrator Claims Urgency but Lacks Insight and Coherence Keva York , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , October 2021;

— Review of Nitram Shaun Grant , 2021 single work film/TV
'There is a scene early on in Nitram, Justin Kurzel's bull-headed portrait of the man responsible for the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, in which leading man Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) leans on a car horn for an interminable 30 seconds.'
Film About Earlier Life of Port Arthur Gunman, Nitram, Still 'Too Raw' For Many Tasmanians Ellen Coulter , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2021;

'It's been a quarter of a century since the worst massacre in modern Australian history.'

‘It’s Still Really, Really Raw’ : Port Arthur Massacre Film Nitram Premieres in Hobart to Half-empty Cinema Sarah Aitken , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 15 October 2021;

— Review of Nitram Shaun Grant , 2021 single work film/TV

'The controversial film’s first Tasmanian screening was described as ‘like going to a funeral’. How will it be received in a town that won’t speak the killer’s name?' 

Nitram Review : New Film about Port Arthur Perpetrator Is Uncomfortable Viewing, but Not for the Reasons You Might Expect Alison Taylor , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 28 September 2021;

— Review of Nitram Shaun Grant , 2021 single work film/TV

'A film about the perpetrator of Australia’s worst mass shooting was always going to be controversial. After 25 years, Tasmania’s Port Arthur massacre — in which 35 people were killed and scores more injured — is still raw for many Australians.'

An Eye on the Outlier Harry Windsor , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , October no. 182 2021; (p. 56-59)

— Review of Nitram Shaun Grant , 2021 single work film/TV
Depths of Sorrow Christos Tsiolkas , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 9-15 October 2021;

— Review of Nitram Shaun Grant , 2021 single work film/TV
'Scrupulously avoiding exploitation, Justin Kurzel’s Nitram allows space for the aspects of violence that escape comprehension. By Christos Tsiolkas.'
Nitram Review : New Film about Port Arthur Perpetrator Is Uncomfortable Viewing, but Not for the Reasons You Might Expect Alison Taylor , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 28 September 2021;

— Review of Nitram Shaun Grant , 2021 single work film/TV

'A film about the perpetrator of Australia’s worst mass shooting was always going to be controversial. After 25 years, Tasmania’s Port Arthur massacre — in which 35 people were killed and scores more injured — is still raw for many Australians.'

‘It’s Still Really, Really Raw’ : Port Arthur Massacre Film Nitram Premieres in Hobart to Half-empty Cinema Sarah Aitken , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 15 October 2021;

— Review of Nitram Shaun Grant , 2021 single work film/TV

'The controversial film’s first Tasmanian screening was described as ‘like going to a funeral’. How will it be received in a town that won’t speak the killer’s name?' 

'Nitram' Review : Story of Port Arthur Massacre Perpetrator Claims Urgency but Lacks Insight and Coherence Keva York , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , October 2021;

— Review of Nitram Shaun Grant , 2021 single work film/TV
'There is a scene early on in Nitram, Justin Kurzel's bull-headed portrait of the man responsible for the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, in which leading man Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) leans on a car horn for an interminable 30 seconds.'
Film About Earlier Life of Port Arthur Gunman, Nitram, Still 'Too Raw' For Many Tasmanians Ellen Coulter , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2021;

'It's been a quarter of a century since the worst massacre in modern Australian history.'

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