My curator's notes on Paul Cox's film Innocence (2000) are now up at the National Film & Sound Archive website, australianscreen.
The film, for those who haven't seen it, is a drama examing an adulterous affair between two senior citizens, resurrecting the brief but intense love affair of their youth.
On a different note, if you're interested in Australian genre film-making I recommend you check out my colleague Richard Kuipers's recently posted notes on several Oz horror films including Wolf Creek and Long Weekend.
Brief extract: Innocence:
The principal themes of Innocence – love, mortality, spirituality – are found throughout the work of veteran auteur filmmaker Paul Cox (Cactus, 1986; A Woman’s Tale, 1991), but find a particularly intense and satisfying expression here. The film became one of the Dutch-born Australian filmmaker’s most widely admired and internationally successful features...
"...Perhaps the strangest thing about Innocence is the title, the meaning of which is not immediately obvious but provides a moral and philosophical framework in which to discuss its events.
"On a literal level it appears Cox is proclaiming that the spirituality of love goes hand in hand with moral innocence. Yet by highlighting the genuine trauma caused to Claire’s (Julia Blake) husband John (Terry Norris) by her affair with Andreas (Bud Tingwell), this notion is complicated in a deeply interesting way..."
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Nice post as for me. It would be great to read something more about this topic. The only thing this blog needs is some photos of some devices.
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