Innocence R

Innocence
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 10, 2002
  • Originally Released: 2001
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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User Ratings: 1,099
Rating: 4/4 -- Paul Cox's "Innocence"...a film so beautiful and pure it just might restore your faith in ci-nee-ma! Full Review
eFilmCritic.com
Apr 26, 2002
It's about grown-ups and for grown-ups.
Houston Chronicle
Oct 26, 2001
Rating: 3.5/4 -- A terrific film, understated and thoughtful, beautifully crafted and alive with respect for the power of love to change lives at any age. Full Review
Cincinnati Enquirer
Oct 15, 2002
An exercise in quiet elegance and disarming earthiness.
NUVO Newsweekly
Jan 22, 2002
...Paul Cox's INNOCENCE is like a great lifting of the heart....INNOCENCE is a song of joy and hope, and like its characters it is grown-up...
Chicago Sun-Times
Sep 7, 2001
Because the script has them lovey-dovey from beginning to bittersweet end, their story is fatally lacking in dramatic conflict.
San Jose Mercury News
Oct 25, 2001
...Ms. Blake, Mr. Tingwell and Mr. Norris bring such passion to the roles...
New York Times
Aug 17, 2001

Product Description:

Director Paul Cox ponders the nature of love in this sincere tale of romance about two elderly people who debunk convention and follow their hearts. An aging Andreas (Charles Tingwell) realizes that a woman named Claire (Julia Blake), with whom he had a love affair forty years back, is living nearby. He sends her a letter hoping to reunite with her. Their meeting stirs up old feelings, and, to the confusion of their families, the two begin a lusty liason. The power of the film lies in Cox's fearlessly honest approach to such questions as the relationship between aging and loyalty, and the interplay between sensuality and love. Julia Blake's performance is touching in its clarity. The balance she maintains between attachment and anger towards her husband, John (Terry Norris), and companionship and passion towards Andreas is remarkable. Tingwell manages to keep from being overly sentimental by a whimsical vigor he injects into his characterization. In flashbacks of the couple's early years, Cox uses 8mm film stock to give these sequences a texture that is the embodiment of nostalgia and ephemera. Cox tells us, "Love is the only thing worth believing in. It's naïve to believe otherwise."

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  • UPC: 043396094123
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