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List Price: $29.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 72100
Released: December 10, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This tender tale of love reignited begins when Andreas (Charles Tingwell) writes a letter to Claire (Julia Blake), the girl he loved in his youth. Though they've married other people (Andreas's wife has died) and had children who are now adults, when they meet again, the passion they once felt returns. But when Claire tells her husband, John (Terry Norris), he's devastated; his struggle to hold on to Claire threatens to ruin all of their lives. Innocence is quiet and slow paced, giving it a calm reflection on love and mortality that turns, sometimes unexpectedly, to heartbreaking sadness. The actors are excellent, particularly Blake, who makes the risks Claire takes feel as immediate and unexpected as they would feel to a teenager. --Bret Fetzer
Innocence Reviews:
Great service and great quality 
2009-11-01 - I purchased a video and received it in record time. The quality and service were both top notch. I will buy from this seller again.
Touching Love Story
2009-03-26 - You don't often find "old" lovers and I found this very touching. I saw it on TV and ordered it the next day.
First Love Never Dies
2009-01-29 - Claire & Andreas, young lovers reunited after 45 years, discover each kept a place in their heart for the other.
After the death of his much-beloved wife, Andreas writes to Claire, his first love. Claire at first declines his invitation to meet, but after years (20!) of a sexless marriage, thoughts of the desire she once felt for Andreas reawaken her sexuality, a part of her she thought had died. As youthful desire comes rushing back (aptly portrayed by flashbacks of tender moments) and preoccupy her thoughts, Claire is soon overwhelmed by the memory of his touch, his kiss, his flesh.
Resigned to a sexless marriage, Claire had never been unfaithful to her loving, but neglectful husband. Can she retain her "Innocence" and be content to live out her days tortured only by her thoughts and not by her deeds? Or, does she give in to temptation?
Thanks to Paul Cox for making this poignant film about the lasting impression first love makes on us all.
The only way to live is to love.
2007-11-17 - If you come away from this movie with anything at all, let it be that statement - one of the last made by Claire, who has loved well, if perhaps not always too wisely. But yet, she followed her heart, and was true to herself. That is not an easy thing to do or to be. Especially once you've reached that certain age, when one is automatically supposed to be imbued with extra wisdom.
To love and be loved, to experience passion - even if only for a brief time - is the most wonderful thing in the world, and this movie brilliantly captures the essence of such a love. Liesurely, almost languid in the telling, Andreas and Claire were privileged to recapture their younger love, for a brief shining moment. We should all hope for as much. There is more to life than an unhappy marriage. Staying together to stay together when there is no love is deceitful and harmful to the participants.
This is a gorgeously executed film about love--at any age. I suppose it's true that younger people might lose patience with it anti-hectic approach, but they're the ones who should pay the most attention. Someday, it'll be their turn, and with any luck at all, they can experience what transpired between Claire and Andreas. This is indeed a love story for the ages. All of them.
Its heart's in the right placed; now if I could just find where the other stuff is... 
2007-08-13 - If you are under the age of 50, you might pass this movie by. I think that the criticisms leveled by others regarding this film are generally deserved, I agree with most of them; however, as I am an aged, spavined, tattered and torn ex-Romeo myself, I gave it an extra star for its attempt at clarity. I really do think that you have to be older to appreciate what this movie - short on good writing and amateurishly acted by the lead male though it is - is about. It tends, at times, to be didactic, especially in some of the rather stilted conversations about God, but it does open to the screen an area of experience that is very close to the bone for those of us supposedly past our primes. Movies are always less and more than meets the eye, and this is no exception. For me this film, however weak in some areas it is, was touching and real. I was always aware of what it was lacking, but at the same time I was taken with its boldness in evaluating human love and sexuality in people over the age normally reserved for this kind of scrutiny. It's painfully lacking in humor (a huge and glaring deficit), and I think the writer and director took what they had to say much too seriously, but this ultimately does not detract from the truths it exposes. For all its faults, I do recommend it to those of us who have arrived at that moment when getting out of a chair has become a painful and tricky business.
