| Force of Destiny | |
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| Directed by | Paul Cox |
| Written by | Paul Cox |
| Produced by | Mark Patterson Maggie Miles Baby Mathew Somatheeram. |
| Starring | David Wenham |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
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]
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,
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]