Exile (1994 film)

Exile
DVD cover
Directed byPaul Cox
Written byPaul Cox
Based onnovel Priests Island by E.L. Grant Watson
Produced byPaul Cox
Santhana Naidu
Paul Ammitzboll
StarringAden Young
Beth Champion
Claudia Karvan
CinematographyNino Gaetano Martinetti
Edited byPaul Cox
Music byPaul Grabowsky
Production
companies
Distributed byBeyond International
Roadshow (video)
Release date
  • 12 February 1994 (1994-02-12)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$2 million[1]

Exile is a 1994 Australian drama film directed by Paul Cox. It was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.[2] The film was shot entirely on location in Tasmania.[3]

Plot

In the 19th century a young man is banished to an island for stealing a few sheep.

Cast

Production

The film is based on a novel which was set in Scotland but Cox relocated it to Tasmania. Although an earlier script was written by another writer, Cox wrote the screenplay for the film over eight days while on holiday on a Greek Island. Half the budget was provided by the Film Finance Corporation.[4][5] According to Cinema Papers, the budget for the movie was AUD$2.0m, but director Paul Cox claimed it was actually AUD$1.5m.[6]

The film was shot from 15 March to 25 April 1993 on the Freycinet Peninsula on the east coast of Tasmania.[1] Cox:

It's a very religious film. Because of that, it is not very commercial, is not very successful. I think it's a very good film... Exile is about the sea. It's also about society, how it always destroys the individual: that we're not the end product of that society, we're just there to be manipulated and used. It's about a man kicked out of society who really becomes himself. He shines, burns through all the rubbish of the mind and the body. He has to somehow survive physically as well, and he does it quite brilliantly. People even get jealous of him. They ban him and exile him.[7]

Exile had its Australian premiere at the State Cinema, North Hobart which was followed by an audience lead Q&A.[8]

Awards

At the 1994 AFI Awards the film won the Samuelson Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography for Nino Gaetano Martinetti, ACS.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, May 1993 p74-75
  2. ^ "Berlinale: 1994 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  3. ^ Feature Article - Tasmanian feature films Contributed by Paul Bywater, Hobart Film Society
  4. ^ Andrew L. Urban, "Paul Cox: Exile", Cinema Papers, August 1993 p6-9
  5. ^ Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford University Press, 1996 p54
  6. ^ a b Exile (1994). Ozmovies. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Interview with Paul Cox", Signet, 13 January 2001 Archived 9 December 2012 at archive.today accessed 18 November 2012
  8. ^ Clyde, Bill (2013). A Century of Cinema: The Life & Times of the State Cinema. North Hobart, Tasmania: State Cinema. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-646-90967-7.