Force of Destiny

Force of Destiny
Directed byPaul Cox
Written byPaul Cox
Produced byMark Patterson
Maggie Miles
Baby Mathew Somatheeram.
StarringDavid Wenham
Release date
  • 2015 (2015)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Force of Destiny is a 2015 Australian film written and directed by Paul Cox. It was Cox's last feature. It starred David Wenham.[1]

The film was based on Cox's liver transplant.[2][3][4]

Premise

A sculptor, Robert, who lives and works by himself outside Melbourne discovers he has terminal liver cancer. He shuts down emotionally until he meats a marine biologist, Maya,

Cast

  • David Wenham as Robert
  • Hannah Fredericksen as Poppy
  • Jacqueline McKenzie as Hannah
  • Shahana Goswami as Maya
  • Kym Gyngell
  • Terry Norris

Reception

The film screened at the Melbourne Internationa Film Festival.

The Hollywood Reporter wrote the film "constitutes a series of scenes repeated with variation in pitch: Robert in hospital, Robert fretted over by his wife and daughter, then soothed by the devotion of Maya. The character of Maya is solicitous, unquestioning, mysterious but earthy: a flattened version of a real woman... the Indian sections in Force of Destiny — in which Maya returns to India to be by the bedside of her uncle (Mohan Agashe), also stricken by cancer — feel organic only to the film’s financing."[5]

References

  1. ^ Siemienowicz, Rochelle (4 August 2015). "Force of Destiny review: Paul Cox faces mortality as only Paul Cox can". SBS.
  2. ^ Edwards, Dave. "Force of Destiny – movie review". The Blurb.
  3. ^ Carroll, Emma (25 August 2015). "Director Paul Cox on Force of Destiny". Screen Australia. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  4. ^ Buckmaster, Luke (24 September 2015). "Film-maker Paul Cox: 'I was supposed to be dead quite a few times now'". The Guardian.
  5. ^ Windsor, Harry (13 August 2015). "Force of Destiny". The Hollywood Reporter.
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