Innocence

Name: Innocence
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: August 17, 2001
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Julia Blake

2001

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IDP Distribution | Release Date: August 17, 2001 | R

Starring: Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Julia Blake

Summary: The story of the love triangle that is created when a widower seeks out the married woman he fell in love with forty years earlier.

Director: Paul Cox

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 94 min

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Jay Carr

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.

Carrie Rickey

If there's a more passionate love story out there, then I haven't had the privilege of seeing it. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

A beautiful, almost defiant film on an unusual subject: love among the elderly.

Mike Clark

No situation could be more human, and it's one the youth-dominated film industry rarely touches. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

The film never quite shakes its self-consciousness about just how special it is and that is a hindrance. Read full review

New Times (L.A.) Bill Gallo

Paul Cox's admirers are sure to embrace this latest eruption of sincerity and sensitivity.

Ronnie Scheib

It's all so overdetermined -- each encounter of the present-day lovers mirrors some moment from the long-ago day when they parted -- that it reduces their whole affair to a matter of last-minute revisionism. Read full review

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Greg

Sep 24, 2006

This is a beautiful film for all ages. The flashing back and forth between the young lovers and themselves as seniors is done tastefully and emotionally. The husband is played passionately and understandably. It would ruin the experience to say more. Thanks to the writer/director/camera This is a beautiful film for all ages. The flashing back and forth between the young lovers and themselves as seniors is done tastefully and emotionally. The husband is played passionately and understandably. It would ruin the experience to say more. Thanks to the writer/director/camera operator/actors. A wonderful film about love. I would have given it 10, but I remain unsettled about one or two questions, which I feel should have been clearly answered and were not.… Expand

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