Passion (1999 film)

Passion
Passion
Directed by	Peter Duncan
Written by	John Bird; Rob George; George Goldsworthy; Peter Goldsworthy; Don Watson
Produced by	Matt Carroll; Gary Hamilton; Nym Kim; Zanna Northam; Adrienne Read; Sandra Schulberg
Starring	Richard Roxburgh; Barbara Hershey; Emily Woof; Claudia Karvan; Simon Burke; Julia Blake; Bille Brown; Roy Billing
Release date	1 July 1999;
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Box office	A$302,818 (Australia)

Passion, known in some releases as Passion: The Story of Percy Grainger, is a 1999 Australian drama film about some episodes in the life of the pianist and composer Percy Grainger. It stars Richard Roxburgh as Grainger.

Plot

Passion concentrates on Grainger's unusual relationship with his mother and his sexual interests (especially his obsessive self-flagellation, though homosexuality is also hinted at), which affect his relationship with a woman who comes to love him.

It is set mainly in London in 1914, when Grainger's mother Rose was ill (she later jumped to her death in New York, following ill-founded rumours of incest with her son).

Cast

Richard Roxburgh as Percy Grainger
Barbara Hershey as Rose Grainger
Bille Brown as John Grainger
Emily Woof as Karen Holten
Claudia Karvan as Alfhild de Luce
Simon Burke as Hermann Sandby
Linda Cropper as Lilith Lowery
Julia Blake as Queen Alexandra
Roy Billing as John Perring Jr
Genevieve Mooy as Ada Crossley
Peter Whitford as Tour Manager

Production

The film was shot on location in Bath, Somerset and Devon in England, and Sydney, Canberra and Michelago in Australia.

Awards and nominations

Passion won the 1999 Award of Distinction from the Australian Cinematographers Society for Martin McGrath's cinematography.^{[citation needed]}

McGrath also won the Best Achievement in Cinematography award at the 1999 Australian Film Institute Awards.^{[citation needed]} AFI Awards also went to Terry Ryan for Best Achievement in Costume Design, and Murray Picknett for Best Achievement in Production Design.^{[citation needed]}

AFI nominations went to Richard Roxburgh for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Claudia Karvan and Emily Woof for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, and Andrew Plain, Phil Judd, Guntis Sics, Anne Breslin, Jane Paterson for Best Achievement in Sound.^{[citation needed]}

Claudia Karvan was nominated for the 2000 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards for Best Supporting Actor – Female.^{[citation needed]}

Director Peter Duncan was nominated for the Golden St. George at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.^[2]

References

^ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 15 November 2012
^ "21st Moscow International Film Festival (1999)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.

External links

Passion at IMDb
Passion at Oz Movies
Passion is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

[1] "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 15 November 2012

[Moscow1999-2] "21st Moscow International Film Festival (1999)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.

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