an impossibly young judy davis be the star of my brilliant career the movie that start hers a 1979 film direct by gillian armstrong . the story concern sybylla and grow up in the 1890s in the wild of australia who want more from her life than marriage . she be send to live with her grandmother and where relative tame her wild hair and soften her coarse skin and but can not do anything about her spirit . though she fall for a wealthy young man ( sam neil ) and she be true to what her heart tell her and desire most of all to be a writer and an independent person . davis do a wonderful job a sybylla who and although headstrong and manage to make the best of whatever situation she in . what a life for woman back then . her family can not afford to keep her and so there be pressure on her to marry or take a position . living with her grandmother affords her some great opportunity for a good life . but when her father owe a local farmer money and she be send to teach his illiterate child in order to work off the loan . somehow and she turn that into a positive experience though when you see the begin scene of her life there and you would not imagine she ever could . sam neil be very attractive and romantic a harry and who endeavor to understand this unusual woman . beautifully photographed and my brilliant career be nevertheless no big and sweeping epic and and the focus stay on sybylla and her challenge and and her determination to be and in every sense and ahead of her time .