The film, written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus, offers an embarrassment of riches. |
McMillan's already fevered imagination was fired even further, while Mexico gave Beresford the inspiration to take up serious painting again. |
I quote them because of their effect in lashing Beresford to a passion only describable as insane. |
In Victoria, the battle pitted Turner, the working-class warrior, versus Beresford, the middle-class conciliator. |
The Theatre Royal in Beresford Street, later renamed Empire Theatre or Woolwich Empire, was the biggest. |
Beresford paints him as very much the metaphor for the anti-authoritarian, brash and struggling character whom typifies the mythologized Australian figure. |