A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences Read More »
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The Year My Voice Broke (1987) John Duigan, Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn
In 1962, a prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love Read More »
Flirting (1991) John Duigan, Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman
Danny has been sent to boarding school, in this sequel to The Year My Voice Broke. Read More »
Max (2002) Menno Meyjes, John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski
Munich, 1918. German-Jew Max Rothman has returned to much of his pre-war life which includes to his wife Nina and their two children, to his mistress Liselore von Peltz, and to his work as an art dealer. He has however not returned to being an aspiring painter as he lost his dominant right arm during the war. He is approached by an aspiring painter, a thirty-year old Austrian war veteran named Adolf Hitler, who wants him to show his works. Although he doesn’t think the paintings are all that original and he doesn’t really like Hitler as a person, Rothman takes Hitler under his wings if only because of their camaraderie of being war veterans, and knowing that Hitler had nothing and no one to come back to after the war unlike himself. Rothman believes that Hitler has promise if only he can find his original artistic point of view. In part out of need for money, Hitler, on the urging of Captain Karl Mayr, agrees to work for the army as a political spokesman in anti-Semitic propaganda.
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