Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
Written and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (The Dressmaker), Proof follows Andy (Russell Crowe, in one of his earliest leading roles), a restaurant worker, who befriends blind photographer Martin (Hugo Weaving).
Though Andy is usually the point-of-view character, this is a film about Martin. His reason for becoming a photographer is the titular "proof" -- that whomever he was with has not lied to him about what the camera was seeing. Martin's life is overshadowed by his difficult early relationship with mother, now deceased, and his unhealthy co-dependence with his house keeper Celia (Genevieve Picot). It might have been a more interesting film if that psychosexual tension had ended in a manner more like Phantom Thread, rather than a handwave away of habit and trauma.