The experience of watching Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy, his film with Cate Blanchett as the nun running an orphange during the second world war and a boy dazzlingly played by Aswan Reid – who is like a Son sent by God to confront the cruelty of a Christian world and to rival it – is extraordinary.
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