Innocence (2000)

Regisseur:

Paul Cox

Drehbuchautor:

Paul Cox (written by)

Premierendatum:

21. Dezember 2000 (Australia)

Genre:

Drama | Romanze

Werbezeile:

Remember to love, surrender to love, and vow to never, never forget

Plot:

After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers...

Plot Keywords:

Passion | Unhappy Marriage | Extramarital Affair | Doctor | Elderly

Filmpreise:

7 wins & 6 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

As a cautionary tale and a lyric expression of love's power, few current movies can match this film's quiet honesty.

Besetzung

Julia Blake	...	Claire
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell	...	Andreas Borg (as Charles Tingwell)
Kristine Van Pellicom	...	Young Claire
Kenny Aernouts	...	Young Andreas
Terry Norris	...	John
Marta Dusseldorp	...	Monique
Robert Menzies	...	David
Chris Haywood	...	Minister
Norman Kaye	...	Gerald
Joey Kennedy	...	Sally
Liz Windsor	...	Maudie
Dawn Klingberg	...	Restaurant Owner
Peter Berger	...	Doctor #1
Kate Roberts	...	Doctor #2
Michaela Cantwell	...	Nurse

Alternativ:

Innocence - Erste Liebe, zweite Chance (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality/nudity.

Länge:

94 Min

Produktionsland:

Australia | Belgium

Sprache:

Englisch | Französisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby SR

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:L | Malaysia:18SX (uncut version) | Malaysia:U (cut version) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Belgium:KT | Brazil:14 | Canada:R | Finland:K-11 | Netherlands:AL | New Zealand:M | Spain:13 | UK:12 | USA:R

Drehorte:

Adelaide Hills, South Australia, Australia

Firma:

CinéTé

Dialogzitate:

Claire: It isn't always possible to resist... to obey the rules and deny the things that really matter.

As a cautionary tale and a lyric expression of love's power, few current movies can match this film's quiet honesty.

Writer, director Paul Cox's `Innocence' may be about senior-citizen love, but it really is about how we must be ready when love arrives or when it returns, no matter at what age. As a cautionary tale and a lyric expression of love's power, few current movies can match this film's quiet honesty.

At the same time, `Innocence' has enough aphorisms and platitudes about love and life to make it qualify for the `I am Sam/Majestic' sugar trophy. Heroine Claire's leaden comment, `Too much love is as bad as no love at all,' is one of the winners.

But then when she says to her elderly friend before their lovemaking, "If we're going to do this--let's do it like grownups. First, close the curtains. Then, close your eyes," I have to admit it made me consider that bedroom antics at any age are pretty goofy in the cold light of maturity. In this way, Cox has caught the humanity that crosses all age lines and doesn't need the excessive silent intercutting of numerous romantic reveries from the protagonists' youth.

If you see `Innocence,' you may never have to see another love story. The romance between these two almost 70 year olds is fraught with uncertainty, deception, longing, passion, and regret. It is honest about the choices we make and their consequences. It is hopeful about our ability to recoup our losses and begin again, even at life's end.

So, like our own lives and loves, the film is alternately sublime and ridiculous. View it if only to witness on film the first and last time you will see septuagenarians making love. Hey, they look just as silly as the rest of us.