Phillip Altbeker reviews the drama The Sapphires, City of God director Fernando Meirelles’s latest offering 360 and the sixth iteration of the Fast and the Furious franchise IN ITS telling of a true yet, one feels, embellished story, THE SAPPHIRES deals with disenfranchised outcasts who, through determination and talent, not to mention luck, defied the marginalisation that would otherwise have been their sad fate.Successive colonial then Australian governments had reacted to public sentiment by consigning the Aborigine population to centres in remote areas, thereby depriving them of any realistic prospects. Three sisters — Gail (Deborah Mailman), the eldest and most outspoken, Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell), and Julie (Jessica Mauboy) — consider their singing ability worthy of a wider audience so they enter a local contest, which, despite their obvious superiority, is won by a white entrant.However, Dave (Chris O’Dowd), the accompanist, recognises potential when it penetrates his sodden ...
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