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| Innocence
Year: 2000
Classification: Drama
Directed:
- Paul Cox
Actors/Actresses:
- Julia Blake
- Charles Tingwell
- Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
The beauties of aging
INNOCENCE is sonata about love - first love, interrupted love, lost love, rekindled love. In a gentle manner the tale of a young couple falling in love is revealed in the opening sequences and then we meet that same couple decades later, after time, marriage to other people, family, and the world has smeared that tenuous prelude. The man learns his first love lives nearby, they meet, their love is renewed, and the woman must decide whether to follow her heart ( in her late sixties) or remain in a marriage without passion. Simple story, the details are best left out as they might destroy the impact of this lovely film. It is enough to say that the writer and director have presented a love story about people nearing seventy and have made that story as tender and erotic as if it were about youth. The cycle of life, the consequences of choices, and the rare vision of the dignity of the beauty of aging are of more importance here. In a time when the world population of Senior Citizens is rapidly expanding it is refreshing to come across a movie that makes aging not only OK, but actually a state to anticipate with a glow.
I'm wiping my eyes here
Innocence is about love. Young lovers who separate, marry others, then come together in old age and fall in love all over again, to the consternation of the husband of one of the pair. And it's beautiful, sad, funny, touching, heartbreaking, thoughtful - well, I can find no fault with it on any level. Beautiful acting, and you feel deeply for every single character. BR>The film occurs in the present as this charming elderly couple (in their 70s, we must assume) reunite and try to recast their previous love to conform to the truth they have just discovered: that the bond forged in their youth has only grown stronger with the passage of half a century. But to put the present into perspective, there are voiceless flashbacks to 50 years in the past when they were young lovers - who, for some unexplained reason, chose to part and marry others. BR>See it. Please.
Looking at love as a timeless treasure
You wonder sometimes, if there are people who go through their entire lives without discovering the magic and transcendence of true love. The two lovers in this movie, Andreas and Claire, provide a marvelous illustration of how profound and humbling it is to grow and nurture this feeling, creating a pair of true soul mates. You are offered a glimpse of the many wonders and ramifications that must be endured when you are part of this type relationship - both young and old alike.
The movie is about a couple who, in their early adulthood, were passionate and caring lovers, but for some unexplained reason, were separated and married others with whom they established their own families. The story takes place in the present, when Claire and Andreas are in their late 60's and in not-so-good health. They are brought together and realize that they are still desirous of each other, emotionally and physically. Andreas is widowed but Claire is married to a man, with whom she suddenly realizes, has not provided her love and fulfillment, but has provided material and financial support.
As background and transitional scenes of the movie flash back to 40 - 50 years previous in the lives of the two lovers - always without hearing their words, we are privy to all of the mundane and detailed complexities of day-to-day existence in the lives of the re-united, elder lovers as they face the truth of their realization that the bond that they forged in their youth has endured, and indeed, has grown.
Although the movie subtly depicts the emergence and resurgence of the elation in discovering and rediscovering romantic love, it sends a powerful and lasting message about the importance in being true to one's self.
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