SALVATION

Country:	Australia
Language:	English
Duration:	100 minutes
Distributor:	Hopscotch Films
Director:	Paul Cox
Starring:	Natalia Novakova / Bruce Myles / Wendy Hughes
Classification:	M

Paul Cox’s new film (his first shot digitally) returns to some of the themes of his early triumph Man of Flowers. It’s a meditation and sometimes satire on modern life’s quest for spiritual enlightenment: either packaged, marketed and made easily digestible by televangelism; or wrestled with, worked through and tested in the nuanced passions of human relationships.

Bruce Myles stars as the aging academic seeking his spiritual redemption in the unlikely love of a Russian refugee and sometime sex worker (Natalia Novakova). Wendy Hughes rejoins Cox’s ensemble cast in the role of a brash and domineering televangalist. There are cameos for Barry Humphries and Cox regulars such as Chris Haywood, Terry Norris, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Monica Maughan, and Tony Llewellyn-Jones.

Q & As & PANEL DISCUSSIONS

Free following the screening:

Saturday 8th November

Salvation: 4.30pm Arc Cinema at the National Film and Sound Archive

Q & A by actors Wendy Hughes and Tony Llewellyn-Jones

Wendy Hughes and Paul Cox will introduce the screening.