Paul Cox, a retrospective of whose films is a part of the 2012 edition of Iffk, is a familiar name to Indian viewers. Virtually every film of his has been shown at some Indian festival or the other. Besides, prior to his advent as a filmmaker, he had spent some time in Calcutta, a fact that he makes much of whenever he is in this country.
Paul Cox. Image Courtesy: onborrowedtime.com.au
Cox is one of the handful of people responsible for Australian cinema coming of age in the 1980s. This old-world romantic with his roots in The Netherlands and now in his early seventies, first visited Australia in 1963 as an exchange student and returned to settle there two years later. He started out as a photographer, which explains for the obvious care that goes into the visual aspect of his films; the tone, the depth, the composition, etc. He...
Paul Cox. Image Courtesy: onborrowedtime.com.au
Cox is one of the handful of people responsible for Australian cinema coming of age in the 1980s. This old-world romantic with his roots in The Netherlands and now in his early seventies, first visited Australia in 1963 as an exchange student and returned to settle there two years later. He started out as a photographer, which explains for the obvious care that goes into the visual aspect of his films; the tone, the depth, the composition, etc. He...
- 12/12/2012
- by Vidyarthy Chatterjee
- DearCinema.com
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