The Eye of the Storm: trailer

Fred Schepisi’s new film The Eye of the Storm has its cinema release next month, but it will also air on ABC1 in 2012.

Starring Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Charlotte Rampling, Alexandra Schepisi, it’s the first film directed by Schepisi in Australia since Evil Angels. The story is based on the novel by Patrick White, Australia’s only ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The film also just took out the The Age Critics Prize at the recent Melbourne International Film Festival and will be having its international premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, two nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son and daughter convene at her deathbed. But in dying, as in living, Mrs Hunter remains a powerful force on those who surround her.

It opens nationally on September 15th.

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