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Set in the late 1930's, a newly married husband and wife anthropologist team travel to an
island group in New Guinea to study the sexual mores of group of villagers. Their
relationship begins to break down when the woman realises her husband is wrongly
interpreting the research to further his own academic ambitions. She enlists the help of a
pearl trader to travel to another island where she intends to research a village of
head-hunters, and begins to fall in love with him. By the time she returns to her husband,
war has broken out in the Pacific and the Japanese are poised to invade their island.
------Cinema Papers August edition
Great quote from Cinefile
"Asked how they will cope with the isolation and difficult conditions, Donovan quipped
that he was doing the movie because he needed some isolated time with a small group of
people, and he was 'determined not to become an arsehole.'"
Release Dates: It opened October 21, 1999 in Australia.
Film Festivals: 1999 Vancouver
International Film Festival
1998; 116 minutes
Directed by: Bill Bennett
Cast: Martin Donovan (Phillip), Rufus Sewell (Mick), Maya Stange (Evelyn), Max
Cullen, Andrew S. Gilbert, Marshall Napier
Written by: Bill Bennett
Original Music by: David Bridie
Cimematography by: Danny Ruhlmann
Production Design by: Nicholas McCallum
Costume Design by: Edie Kurzer
Film Editing by: Henry Dangar
Produced by: Jennifer Bennet, Bill Bennett, Mikael Borglund, Gary Hamilton,
Brenda Pam, Sandra Schulberg
Production Companies: Hollywood partners, The Australian Film Finance Corporation |
