The Book of Revelation (film)

The Book of Revelation
Movie poster
Directed by Ana Kokkinos
Produced by Al Clark
Written by Rupert Thomson (novel)
Ana Kokkinos
Andrew Bovell
Starring Tom Long
Greta Scacchi
Colin Friels
Anna Torv
Music by Cezary Skubiszewski
Cinematography Tristan Milani
Edited by Martin Connor
Release date
  • 2006 (2006)
Running time
 119 minutes
Country Australia
Language English
Box office A$271,261 (Australia)[1]

The Book of Revelation is a 2006 Australian film directed by Ana Kokkinos, which she adapted with Andrew Bovell to screen from the novel by Rupert Thomson. It was produced by Al Clark, with original music by Cezary Skubiszewski. The movie was unusual for its detailed visuals of a non statutory female on male rape.

Plot

Daniel (Tom Long), an Australian classical dancer, is drugged and abducted in an alley by three hooded women. They proceed to hold him in an abandoned warehouse for about two weeks, mutilating him sexually and using him for their own physical and psychological gratification, before dumping him blindfolded from a car near his home.

Traumatised, Daniel neither reports his kidnapping and rape to the authorities, nor reveals it to family, friends or colleagues. In the aftermath, he loses his ability to dance and has problems readjusting to normal life. His sceptical live-in lover, a ballerina, suspecting that he was unfaithful to her during his absence, leaves him. Obsessed with finding the culprits, who he has reason to believe are from the vicinity, he dates every woman who bears a resemblance to his abductors, hoping to identify them. This leads him into trouble with the law, and to an eventual breakdown that may or may not prove cathartic. The film concludes on this ambiguous note, with Daniel weeping in the arms of a policeman.

Cast

Awards

The film was nominated for Best Screenplay - Adapted, Best Original Music Score and Best Costume Design awards at the Australian Film Institute in 2006. It won the Best Music Score (Cezary Skubiszewski) at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, where it was nominated for four more awards.

References

  1. ↑ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria accessed 11 November 2012
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