Image: still from Exile, made in 1994, starring Aden Young, Beth Champion and Claudia Karvan.
Paul Cox had made a total of 27 substantial films since Illuminations in 1976, and between 1988 and 2001 he basically made one picture every year.
He is an indefatigable independent, a position only reinforced by his biggest excursion into directing a picture he didn’t own. He describes Molokai as a disaster, in which his cut was destroyed. ‘Every time I’ve done a film for other people I’ve been in terrible trouble,’ he says. ‘I’ve never had the nature to take all that rubbish, you know.’
