The Eye of the Storm

A Powerful but Difficult Story to Capture on Film
THE EYE OF THE STORM has so much going for it that it seems a shame that it likely will not draw audiences in the theaters now that it has been released in this country. Thanks to Amazon's Video on Demand it can be watched in the home without the usual distractions of the theater audience more interested in texting and eating than in being willing to follow a strong story for two hours. It is another jewel of a film from Australia and perhaps in art houses it will be appreciated.
The story is adapted by Judy Morris from the Nobel Prize winning novel by Patrick White (1912 -1990), an Australian author who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. White's fiction employs humor, florid prose, shifting narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the only Australian to have been awarded the prize. `The Eye of the Storm' is the ninth published novel by...

"Have We Been Called Here For A Public Execution?"--Dorothy
Widowed Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling) is lying ill in bed adorning herself and awaiting the arrival of her two children Basil (Geoffrey Rush) and Dorothy (Judy Davis), who do not show up on time for good reason: Their dysfunctional childhood and bitter feelings toward their mother.

The cast is acerbically directed by Fred Schepisi from the adapted screenplay of Judy Morris from the Nobel Prize winning novel penned by Patrick White. This picture provides arresting photography along with an occasional, almost poetic narrative interjected from an in character Geoffrey Rush.

Dorothy is the first to arrive late at the estate in Sydney Australia. She is immediately uncomfortable with her mother as Elizabeth begins to censure her in a berating manner. Dorothy is now divorced from her aristocratic French husband who left her without anything from the marriage but for her official title of `Princess'.

Discernibly flagrant Basil arrives fashionably...

Brilliant
The Eye of the Storm is one of the best films. A stellar cast that deserves accolades. I'm quite stunned that it did not receive an Oscar nod for best picture. A must see...add it to your collection.

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