| Scott Murray |
 Scott Murray - Director - Evan Williams, The Australian Filmography As Director (features):
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Devil in the Flesh Reviews Selection: "Scott Murray has handled [his] material with sensitivity and restraint...a work of exceptional confidence and maturity...Murray's treatment of the film's central themes - passion, hypocrisy, repression - is powerful and moving...It is rare to see an Australian film deal also forcefully with intense sexual emotion." "A film of surprising effectiveness and maturity...totally free of melodramatic excess...the qualities which make this story of adolescent passion so realistic yet so unusual...come through convincingly, movingly. Technically the film is outstanding...It is a directorial debut which doesn't deserve to be overlooked." "Murray knows precisely what it is he wants to say in this film and is totally assured in saying it...Murray's achievement is to have transposed [a French] novel to Australia...and in doing so he has made a film which in many ways is uniquely Australian...It is one of the most interesting and cinematically confident feature films to be produced in Australia in the last few years." "This is a film of visual exactitude...the canvas is rendered as if with the restrained, subtle strokes of a brush...everything achieves a harmonious balance...It is the supreme example of a mature style of filmmaking." "[Raymond Radiguet's] Devil in the Flesh has made a beautiful and effortless transfer to Australia...[Murray] captures a time and feeling that owes much to authenticity but still more to a personal vision...The audience is invited to draw its own conclusions without the aid of an authorial point of view - a refreshing change. The film is erotic and sensual...Every scene looks beautiful." "Murray has successfully produced the most European of all Australian films...Murray handles the [passionate] drama in a low-key, unsensational style that's remarkably effective. Katia Caballero is a discovery as the radiant, sensual Marthe...the limpid images of the small Victorian town, with its tree-lined streets, dusty railway station and gossipy citizens are simply splendid." "Devil in the Flesh is a welcome departure in Australian film-making." "The erotic tension is palpable and craftily maintained...superb look and feeling for period and place." "Astonishing mastery of the director...perfection of technique, bringing to life a subject which [Murray] develops through details, glances and captured expressions.. Murray has perfect control of the tools of his art." "A return to classicism in contemporary cinema...marks a re-discovery of the best cinema [in Australia], its sensibility, its sense of nuance, its attention to detail." "Murray's Devil in the Flesh strikes a new note in Australian cinema...a success." "An extraordinarily beautiful film...very sensuous and erotic...the haunting ending reminds one of Kazan's Splendour in the Grass." "One of the revelations of Cannes this year...an extraordinary debut." "A beautiful film...very erotic, but never explicit." "Astonishing film...almost too perfect." Melba Recordings direction: |