Age of Consent (Powell, 1969): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.45pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger season at BFI Southbank. There is a further screenings of this film on December 27th. You can find the details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Shot in luscious color around the Great Barrier Reef, the final feature (1969) by British
director Michael Powell (who with Emeric Pressburger codirected such
classics as The Red Shoes and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
returns to Chicago in a 35-millimeter print. James Mason stars as a
frustrated artist who moves to a small island off the east coast of
Australia in hopes of rekindling his passion for painting. He discovers
his muse in the form of a free-spirited teenage girl who lives on the
island (Helen Mirren), and Powell charts their blossoming relationship
with sensitivity and earthy humor. Martin Scorsese, a lifelong admirer
of Powell, has said of this life-affirming comedy: “For years before and
after they made the film, Powell and Mason tried to get a version of The Tempest off the ground, and in fact there are strong echoes of The Tempest in Age of Consent.
There’s a sense of magic and color and the power of the natural world. .
. . It’s about the singular vision, the passion, the obsession of the
artist to continue to create; I think this, distilled down, is the
Powell-Pressburger cinema."
Ben Sachs
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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