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Innocence Stars: Julia Blake, Charles Tingwell, Terry Norris, Robert Menzies, and Marta Dusseldorp Director/Writer:Paul Cox Fireworks Pictures Running time: 95 minutes Rating: R for sex and nudity Website:www.filmzone.com Award: People's Choice Award at 2000 Montreal World Film Festival Innocence is an exploration of love past middle age. At a time when many people are retired and checking out retirement villas, love, that is sexual love, is supposed to be a thing of the past like having all of your hair and teeth. Writer/director Paul Cox says otherwise, giving us a picture of a triangle that includes a married woman, her husband of 40 years, and her former lover of 40 years past. The story opens with Claire (Julia Blake) married to John (Terry Norris and Blake's real life husband.) She receives a note from a former lover of almost 40 years ago, Andreas (Charles Tingwell). At first, Claire is flattered and with some hesitation, meets Andreas for coffee. She is a housewife with one son (Robert Menzies) and he has one daughter (Marta Dusseldorp). Andreas was a brilliant music student when they were young lovers, and has gone on to have a masterful career as a concert organist. Director Paul Cox starts the film with a view of their polite letters to each other and invitations to coffee and lunch. Eventually, the letters cease and the real meetings are frequent and culminate in an affair. She tells her husband ("I'm too old to lie.") who simply doesn't believe her. Claire vacillates between leaving her husband, who is becoming increasingly physical to the point of violence, and staying with him to pacify the situation. John had an affair years earlier and Claire forgave him. Why does he hesitate now that the situation is reversed? Neither Julia Blake nor Charles Tingwell balks at their love scenes; no gauze lighting for Julia Blake! This actress allows herself to be shown at her age and a glorious age it is. Charles Tingwell looks like everyone's favorite uncle while Terry Norris is almost a dead ringer for the late Edward Everett Horton. Cox has a script that pulls everything together though in a way the audience does not anticipate. The music score along with photography in Innocence are wonderfully done with solo piano and cello adding to the mood. Love never fades; love is always there, love triumphs and is universal. Copyright 2001Marie Asner
12/16/2001
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