The Eye Of The Storm
Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life, society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act as she chooses her time to die. But in dying, as in living, Mrs Hunter remains a powerful force on those who surround her.
24 January 1947, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, England, UK
23 September 1966, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
25 May 1960, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
25 September 1942, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
25 September 1952, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
2 January 1982, Australia
21 January 1968, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
10 March 1957
5 February 1946, Sturmer, Essex, England, UK
6 July 1951, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
13 November 1941, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1944, Braintree, Essex, England, UK
11 January 1952, Biloela, Queensland, Australia
23 April 1955, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
May 03, 2013
It is funny and sad in patches, but never comes completely alive, perhaps because there isn't a single character with whom you can feel fully in sympathy.September 14, 2012
Sometimes a feast of acting isn't enough.September 07, 2012
It all feels like a whittled-down miniseries.May 03, 2013
Although the story holds much premise, The Eye of the Storm survives mostly off the performances of the leading cast members.May 10, 2013
The film circles (slowly, like an overfed vulture) around the protracted death of a savage matriarch played, with no concessions to subtlety, by Charlotte Rampling.April 30, 2013
Has taken almost two years to reach the UK; you'd be forgiven for thinking it was far longer, given its sub-Joseph Losey pretensions and doily-like styling.September 10, 2012
A brilliantly acted semi-dud.May 05, 2013
It's a chilly, cruel film about characters that are difficult to like or warm to, and it obviously means a great deal to a country that for so long rejected its greatest writer.May 02, 2013
[A] handsome, if patchy, rendering of Patrick White's story of manipulation and dysfunction among the rich and selfish.September 07, 2012
Rush and Davis are two of the best actors in the business, and their brittle gamesmanship and rue holds the screen. But the film is disappointingly lackluster -- a mild squall instead of a storm.May 02, 2013
The movie proceeds at a measured and reverent pace, a little unfocused, but with intelligent performances from three heavyweight acting talents.September 07, 2012
Too often the film's moods switch unsuccessfully between the abruptly serious and the broadly bizarre.