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Age of Consent: Michael Powell
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Age of Consent, Michael Powell's final full-length feature, was the second film he made during his “exile” in Australia following the overwhelming negative reception to Peeping Tom (1960) in his native England. The first, They're a Weird Mob (1966), was an amusing fish-out-of-water tale following the adventures of a bewildered Italian immigrant navigating the Australian landscape. They're a Weird Mob [P]roved to be a great success in Australia and New Zealand, while barely making a dent anywhere else. Age of Consent was based on a novel by Norman Lindsay, which Powell dismissed as “one of those girl Friday stories…. [He] had obviously written the book for money.” Powell's account of the making of the film in Million Dollar Movie, the second volume of his memoirs, intimates the low regard Powell had for the material, devoting several paragraphs to “Godfrey”, the dog in the movie, whom Powell cheekily refers to as “the real star of the film”. Powell especially professes admiration for the dog's neat trick of slipping in and out of his own collar to fool his owner that he has stayed in place all day (1).
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Mirren is pleased Age of Consent has been restored, because of her admiration for Powell. "He was a great filmmaker. The film is not his greatest movie probably, but it had an internal energy. And now you could see it almost in the historical context, as far as Australia was concerned. It's capturing an era of Australian society that's very interesting."
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In 1968, Mirren shot the drama Age of Consent on Dunk Island. It was a time of firsts: her first trip to Australia; her first film; her introduction to such stellar film-making company as director Michael Powell and actor James Mason; and her first time playing an Australian.
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It is known that Justice Minister Michael McDowell favoured lowering the age of consent to 16. The Minister ... advocated sanctioning "peer sex", so that a teenager would not be criminalised for having sex with another teenager who was within two years of their own age.
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Michael Flory, 48, was arraigned Friday on five charges of rape, criminal sexual acts and sexual abuse against five girls and two boys aged between 7 and 11 years old. Some of them lived near Flory's former home in College Point section of Queens.
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