This epic but intimate Aussie war series deserves to be a hit
Justin Kurzel’s five-episode adaptation of fellow Tasmanian Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize winner, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, is storytelling at its best.
When Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel signed on to adapt Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, it marked the culmination of a long-held personal aspiration. For the auteur behind Snowtown and Nitram, both portraits of murderers, making a mark in the solemn realm of Australian war stories on screen was a natural progression.
Kurzel, like Flanagan, was the son and grandson of Tasmanian servicemen, and the director has said he felt a deep connection to the novel’s first-hand accounts from the partners and families of broken soldiers.
