Synopsis
Faraway Downs (2023) is Baz Luhrmann's sprawling Western, ready to watch online on iFILM. The director took his 2008 epic Australia, cut it into six chapters, restored deleted footage and changed the ending.
English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley crosses the world to drag her wayward husband home and instead buries him almost the moment she arrives. What's left to her is a vast cattle station that local barons are already circling. To save the herd and drive a thousand head across scorched outback, she has to trust a hard-bitten cattleman known only as the Drover. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman anchor a story where the personal and the colonial are knotted tighter than reins.
This is Luhrmann unfiltered: dust-blown horizons, melodrama wide as the continent, a war creeping toward the coast, and a half-Aboriginal boy you end up loving more than the leads. The series cut breathes slower than the film and sits more honestly with its painful history. For anyone who misses big, old-fashioned movies about love and land. Stream Faraway Downs online on iFILM.
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