Movies: Paul Cox

Aging artist and scholar Barry is disenchanted with his existence - disillusioned by his sexless marriage to a televangelist, and repulsed by her brand of easy-to-swallow self-help Christianity. In dire need of an outlet he turns to Irina, a Russian ...

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When Peter Costello is exiled to a deserted island for stealing sheep, Mary, a maid, decides to join him there....

A group of people working in film and television are gathered at a dinner party to discuss Australian media coverage of the Gulf War....

A couple living together have a tense relationship. The woman's father dies and she becomes preoccupied with death. She almost drowns in the bath but then recovers her enthusiasm for life....

Villagers surrounding Antwan, a middle-aged lute player who struggles with a depression, try to get him involved with life again. But only when an old friend and musician appears in the village something changes...

The marriage of Robert and Elizabeth is collapsing, both concentrating on their jobs (journalist, mother) rather than each other. The film looks at a week in their lives. Robert sleeps with their babysitter, Marianne, while Elizabeth talks with their...

An experimental meditation on the nature of time as a young woman is traumatised by a visit to an abandoned suburban warehouse......

Presents a compassionate study of aged women, and of living in an old age home through the observations of Jean Campbell as she moves from room to room talking with other residents and discussing the experiences of living in the home....

The Remarkable Mr Kaye is a blatantly biased portrait by filmmaker Paul Cox about the life of Norman Kaye - actor, musician and compassionate lover of life. Norman Kaye and Paul Cox first met in Melbourne in 1967. Norman, a music teacher and 'after h...

A mood piece involving two lesbian lovers and a disturbed young man contemplating suicide....