Alterations | |
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Written by | Cory Taylor |
Directed by | Julian Pringle |
Starring | Angela Punch-McGregor Richard Moir |
Music by | Andrew Bell |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Cinematography | Jeff Malouf |
Editor | Michael Honey |
Running time | 86 mins |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | 13 March 1988 |
Alterations is a two-part 1988 Australian television film for the ABC shot in 1987 at Canberra. It deals with a married couple and their respective affairs. [1]
Part One: Ann is having an affair with Michael, best friend of her husband Richard.
Part Two: What would happen if Richard had an affair with Eleanor.
The Age called it "an enigmatic, might-have-been story of Adultery His, Adultery Hers in middle class Canberra, it is peopled with cold, unreachable characters who deliver Taylor's stacatto script - it barely contains a sentence of over three words - in deliberately stagey monotones." [2]
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