A gift, not just to senior citizens typically marginalized in films, but to younger viewers who wonder what lies ahead for all of us.
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10/25/01
Innocence (2001)
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Reviews Counted:74
Fresh:61
Rotten:13
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Not only does it break ground in presenting a rarely examined age group, Innocence is a well-acted, powerful story about love.
Theatrical Release:Aug 17, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Julia Blake, Charles Tingwell, Terry Norris, Robert Menzies
Director: Paul Cox
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Reviews for Innocence
It's high time for a reminder - love and lust are NOT sole ownership of the young.
10/24/01
Slow, talky, and, in its final act, more than a little maudlin... rather like a decorous soap opera, which seems a contradiction in terms.
10/24/01
The "live life to its fullest while you can" message begins to feel fabricated...but sentimentally, "Innocence" strikes a truthful and touching chord
10/23/01
Both Blake and Tingwell are charming performers, struggling to stay afloat in this bowl of porridge.
10/21/01
At first, the setup and Mr. Cox's lyricism are intriguing, but he has little to say once the wheels start turning.
10/18/01
Top CriticThe windy passages about life, love, time and whatnot are meant not to be spoken but reverentially intoned.
10/12/01
Top CriticNakedly emotional, startlingly honest and very brave in its perhaps naïve celebration of love, it goes straight to the heart of things.
10/12/01
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10/12/01
Dares to explore sexuality among mature characters.
10/11/01
Top CriticOffers a brave take on love, fidelity and sexuality that often flies in the face of traditional, age-defined preconceptions of all.
10/08/01
The subject matter is so fresh and untrammeled it begs to draw in more mature audiences to this sweet, melancholy story of love at the end of life...
10/03/01
You may never see your grandparents in quite the same light again.
10/03/01
Conflicting emotions give the film a genuine and warming sense of humanity.
09/28/01
Top CriticA powerful, achingly vulnerable film that dares to define the very nature of love.
09/28/01
Cox keeps burdening [Blake and Tingwell] with lines that come to sound less like credible dialogue than windy rhetoric.
09/28/01
Films that achieve the dimension of seraphic embrace achieved by Innocence, as it explores a return to first love, are the rarest of the rare.
09/28/01
Top CriticAlthough they may be in their waning years, the movie's seventyish characters demonstrate a palpable zest for the essence of life and love.
09/27/01
Speaks to the romantic in all of us, and it doesn't take long before we don't care about age.
09/26/01
Top CriticThe characters are unlike anything I've seen -- they're people.
09/21/01
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