''A Woman's Tale'' is a 1991 Australian film directed by
Paul Cox and starring
Sheila Florance
Sheila Mary Florance (24 July 1916 – 12 October 1991) was an Australian theatre, television and film actress. She was best known for her performance as elderly, alcoholic convict Lizzie Birdsworth in the television series ''Prisoner''.
F ...
,
Gosia Dobrowolska,
Norman Kaye,
Chris Haywood,
Max Gillies and Ernie Gray.
Premise
Martha (Florance) is an elderly woman living alone in her flat and dying of cancer. Her love of life leads to an ambivalence about her age; her unique moral code leads to her
playing cupid for her friend and nurse Anna (Dobrowolska) and Anna's married lover (Gray); her worrisome son (Haywood) wants her to move into a home; her neighbour Billy (Kaye) has
dementia.
Production
Florance herself was dying of cancer as the film was being shot. She died, aged 75, nine days after being awarded the 1991
.
Box office
''A Woman's Tale'' grossed $49,584 at the box office in Australia.
The film grossed $405,137 in the United States.
[IMDb.com. Retrieved 23 January 2011]
Reception
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert beca ...
added ''A Woman's Tale'' to his
Great Movies list in 2004.
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References
External links
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Australian screen''A Woman's Tale''
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1991 films
Australian independent films
Australian drama films
Films directed by Paul Cox
1991 drama films
1991 independent films
1990s English-language films
1990s Australian films
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