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...lover Elena is there, consumed by fear and loathing of the war. Her son Simon, a drifting, genial studpuppy, and Max's beautiful daughter Isabel show up. Then in walks Isabel's mother Zoe, a well-known actress, who brings along Paul, her bushy-bearded lover and guru. Plus, there's Zoe's serene mother Delphine, her friend Cassie and a couple of Max's buddies...
...DIED. Isabel Bigley, 80, Bronx-born stage and TV actress best known for creating the role of Sarah Brown, the prim missionary who falls in love with gambler Sky Masterson and sings of her passion in the signature tune If I Were a Bell ("If I were a bell, I'd be ringing ... if I were a lamp, I'd light"), in the 1950 Broadway hit Guys and Dolls; in Los Angeles. Undeterred by a rehearsal during which fiery composer Frank Loesser, underwhelmed by her rendition of Bell, slapped her in the face, Bigley won a Tony Award...
...this way, the director is not unlike the controlling but compassionate choreographer Isabel (Greta Scacchi), who lures the damaged Daniel back into the restorative world of dance. "It's easy to seduce an audience with sex," she tells the troupe early in the film. "I want you to go beyond that." Getting beyond sex is the film's real revelation, but reaching that point involved not only a dance between filmmaker and novelist (see following story) but also between Kokkinos and her co-screenwriter Andrew Bovell (Strictly Ballroom, Head On, Lantana...
...With Thomson's original novel based mainly in Amsterdam, the Australian team set about translating the action to Melbourne, whose laneways have never looked quite so menacing or poetic, as well as fleshing out the roles of Isabel and her ex-husband Olsen (Colin Friels), a police detective specializing in "dark number cases" who investigates Daniel's disappearance. They also tested the limits of their R18+ rating. For audiences, that leaves the most thrilling dance to play out between the director (helped by choreographer Meryl Tankard) and her game troupe of actors...
JUAN AND EVITA PERON Argentine President Perón named his second wife Eva the nation's Spiritual Leader before she died in 1952. When he became President for a second time in 1973, he chose third wife Isabel...