Nutty movie. Fascinating. A friend said it managed to be both homoerotic and homophobic. It's so odd.
For the first half hour or so it was promising. Private school student Mark Lee is seduced by politician Arthur Dingham who then uses Lee who seduce other elements of society. "Oh so it's like a thriller that will be interesting" I thought and awaited for thriller shenanigans. Nope.
Then it sort of hinted that Lee was going to try to find the secret of immortality and then I thought "oh it's going to be a sort of horror/fantasy thing" and waited for that. Nope.
Lee falls for Dingham's son to Heather Mitchell (Paul Goddard) and they... fall in love. The end. Huh?
Why was this film made? How did it get financed? Ginnane was involved? It's a real head scratcher.
It's not particularly well directed, like most Michael Thornhill movies, but again like most of his movies at least has ambition.
Louis Nowra plays a snide suit salemsan in the vein of the one in Sunset Boulevard and does very well.
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