2nd October
Without Myra to guide us we watched a French\Australian film aptly named Australia featuring Jeremy Irons
Australia Review
124 minutes, France/Belgium/Switzerland (1989), U
Andrien, the most intriguing of Belgian directors, has completed only a handful of films, of which this part-English-language co-production is the most ambitious. Edward (Irons), living in Australia with his daughter (his Indonesian wife has died), is called back to his native Belgium because of a crisis in the family business. Against the socio-political changes of the mid-50s, Andrien sets a family drama and love story, involving Edward and a married woman (Ardant). The vivid, almost documentary-style factory backgrounds and the wonderful sense of period and landscape (ravishingly shot by Arvanitis) flesh out the fairly conventional story.
Next week at Myra's.
Australia Review
124 minutes, France/Belgium/Switzerland (1989), U
Andrien, the most intriguing of Belgian directors, has completed only a handful of films, of which this part-English-language co-production is the most ambitious. Edward (Irons), living in Australia with his daughter (his Indonesian wife has died), is called back to his native Belgium because of a crisis in the family business. Against the socio-political changes of the mid-50s, Andrien sets a family drama and love story, involving Edward and a married woman (Ardant). The vivid, almost documentary-style factory backgrounds and the wonderful sense of period and landscape (ravishingly shot by Arvanitis) flesh out the fairly conventional story.
Next week at Myra's.
# posted by Bill @ 3:14 pm 
