Age of Consent (film)
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1969–1970 cinema poster
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| Directed by | Michael Powell |
| Produced by | Michael Powell James Mason |
| Written by | Peter Yeldham |
| Based on |
Age of Consent (novel) by Norman Lindsay |
| Starring |
James Mason Helen Mirren Jack MacGowran |
| Music by |
Peter Sculthorpe (original) Stanley Myers (UK & US release) Peter Sculthorpe (restored) |
| Cinematography | Hannes Staudinger |
| Edited by | Anthony Buckley |
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Production
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Nautilus Productions
Michael Powell Productions |
| Distributed by |
Columbia Pictures Umbrella Entertainment (Aust, NZ) |
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Release date
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Running time
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106 minutes (Australia) 98 minutes (UK & US) 106 minutes (restored) |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | AUD 1.2 million |
| Box office | AUD 981,000 (Aust) |
Age of Consent (also known as Norman Lindsay's Age of Consent) is a 1969 Australian film which was the penultimate feature film directed by British director Michael Powell. The romantic comedy-drama stars James Mason (co-producer with Powell), Helen Mirren in her first major film role, and veteran Irish character actor Jack MacGowran; it features veteran actress Neva Carr Glyn. The screenplay by Peter Yeldham was adapted from the 1935 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Norman Lindsay, who died the year this film was released. Lindsay is also portrayed (in this case, by name) in the 1994 films Sirens, starring Hugh Grant, Sam Neill, and Elle Macpherson.
Bradley Morahan (James Mason) is an Australian artist who feels he has become jaded by success and life in New York City. He decides that he needs to regain the edge he had as a young artist and returns to Australia.
He sets up in a shack on the shore of a small, sparsely inhabited island on the Great Barrier Reef. There he meets young Cora Ryan (Helen Mirren), who has grown up wild, with her only relative, her difficult, gin-guzzling grandmother 'Ma' (Neva Carr Glyn). To earn money, Cora sells Bradley fish that she has caught in the sea. She later sells him a chicken which she has stolen from his spinster neighbour Isabel Marley (Andonia Katsaros). When Bradley is suspected of being the thief, he pays Isabel and gets Cora to promise not to steal any more. To help her save enough money to fulfill her dream of becoming a hairdresser in Brisbane, he pays her to be his model. She reinvigorates him, becoming his artistic muse.
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