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Cactus
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Directed by	Paul Cox
Produced by	Paul Cox
Written by	Paul Cox Bob Ellis
Starring	Isabelle Huppert
Cinematography	Yuri Sokol
Editing by	Tim Lewis
Release date(s)	5 September 1986 (1986-09-05)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	A$1.5 million^[1]
Box office	A$73,751 (Australia)^[2]

Cactus is a 1986 Australian drama film directed by Paul Cox and starring Isabelle Huppert.^[3]

1 Cast
2 Production
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Cast [edit]

Isabelle Huppert as Colo
Robert Menzies as Robert
Norman Kaye as Tom
Monica Maughan as Bea
Banula Marika as Banduk
Sheila Florance as Martha
Peter Aanensen as George
Julia Blake as Club Speaker
Jean-Pierre Mignon as Jean-Francois
Ray Marshall as Kevin
Maurie Fields as Maurie
Sean Scully as Doctor
Dawn Klingberg as Pedestrian
Kyra Cox as Sister
Tony Llewellyn-Jones as Father

Production [edit]

The film was inspired by Paul Cox's memory of his mother temporarily going blind when he was a child. He worked on the story for a number of years, then decided he wanted to work with Isabelle Huppert and wrote the script around her. Bob Ellis worked on the script but fought with Cox over the fact it was about a Frenchwoman staying in Australia, and the two men ended their collaboration.^[1]

Actors Equity objected to Huppert's importation but this was overruled.^[1]

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p95-96
^ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria accessed 24 October 2009
^ Goodman, Walter. "Cactus". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 May 2010.

External links [edit]

Cactus at the Internet Movie Database
Cactus at Australian Screen Online

v t e Films directed by Paul Cox

Features	Illuminations (1976) Inside Looking Out (1977) Kostas (1979) Lonely Hearts (1982) Man of Flowers (1983) My First Wife (1984) Cactus (1986) Island (1989) Golden Braid (1990) A Woman's Tale (1991) The Nun and the Bandit (1992) Exile (1994) Lust and Revenge (1996) Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) Innocence (2000) The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2001) Human Touch (2004) Salvation (2008)

Documentaries	Calcutta (1971) All Set Backstage (1974) We Are All Alone My Dear (1975) For a Child Called Michael (1979) The Kingdom of Nek Chand (1980) Underdog (1980) Death and Destiny (1984) Vincent (1987) The Hidden Dimension (1997) The Remarkable Mr. Kaye (2005)

Films of Bob Ellis

Newsfront (1978)
Fatty Finn (1980)
Maybe This Time (1980)
Goodbye Paradise (1983)
Man of Flowers (1983)
The Winds of Jarrah (1983)
My First Wife (1984)
Unfinished Business (1985) (also directed)
Top Kid (1985) (TV)
The Paper Boy (1985) (TV)
Cactus (1986)
Bullseye (1987)
Perhaps Love (1987) (TV)
True Believers (1988) (TV)
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1988) (also directed)
The Nostradamus Kid (1993) (also directed)
Ebbtide (1994)
Bastards from the Bush, A Journey with Bob Ellis and Les Murray (1998)
Infamous Victory: Ben Chifley's Battle for Coal (2008)

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