Paul Cox - 3 Screenplays - Lonely Hearts & My First Wife & A Woman's Tale Lonely Hearts

A trilogy of love and death, the two great themes of Paul Cox's work. Lonely Hearts is a story of first love, My First Wife, of the disintegration of a mature relationship and A Woman's Tale, of the surviving partner of a wartime marriage, now herself succumbing to cancer

In all three films death is a constant presence and religion a broken need. Only love, made more precious by the prospect of its 'imminent, final interruption' gives meaning to life