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Innocence

Innocence

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  • Australia,
  • Belgium
  • 2000
  • · 94m

Director Paul Cox
Cast Julia Blake, Kristine Van Pellicom, Kenny Aernouts, Marta Dusseldorp

After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her first husband, John. Andreas and Claire find that the connection they shared when they were young is still there and they soon become involved in a rekindled love affair.

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88

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

This is a beautifully acted chamber piece --especially by the magnificent Blake, who is married to Norris in real life.

78

Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten

The originality of Innocence makes it stand apart from the romantic pack.

75

USA Today by Mike Clark

No situation could be more human, and it's one the youth-dominated film industry rarely touches.

75

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

Remarkable in several big ways.

70

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

A beautifully acted, intensely felt story.

70

New Times (L.A.) by Bill Gallo

Paul Cox's admirers are sure to embrace this latest eruption of sincerity and sensitivity.

63

Miami Herald by Marta Barber

Innocence is a gentle love story, one that touches on an issue of great sensitivity -- sexuality in old age.

63

New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

It's reassuring to see love and sex in one's 70s depicted as fully replenishing. At the same time, it's sobering to think that it's no easier in the twilight of life to make rational decisions regarding the heart.

60

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

Mostly mediocre melodrama, though the actors suffering over love's labors lost are quite fine.

40

Chicago Reader by Ronnie Scheib

It's all so overdetermined -- each encounter of the present-day lovers mirrors some moment from the long-ago day when they parted -- that it reduces their whole affair to a matter of last-minute revisionism.