Force of Destiny

Force of Destiny is a 2015 Australian film written and directed by Paul Cox. It was Cox's last feature. It starred David Wenham.^[1]

Force of Destiny
Directed by	Paul Cox
Written by	Paul Cox
Produced by	Mark Patterson Maggie Miles Baby Mathew Somatheeram.
Starring	David Wenham
Release date	2015 (2015)
Country	Australia
Language	English

The film was based on Cox's liver transplant.^[2][3][4]

Premise

A sculptor, Robert, who lives and works by himself outside Melbourne discovers he has terminal liver cancer. He shuts down emotionally until he meats a marine biologist, Maya,

Cast

• David Wenham as Robert
• Hannah Fredericksen as Poppy
• Jacqueline McKenzie as Hannah
• Shahana Goswami as Maya
• Kym Gyngell
• Terry Norris

Reception

The film screened at the Melbourne Internationa Film Festival.

The Hollywood Reporter wrote the film "constitutes a series of scenes repeated with variation in pitch: Robert in hospital, Robert fretted over by his wife and daughter, then soothed by the devotion of Maya. The character of Maya is solicitous, unquestioning, mysterious but earthy: a flattened version of a real woman... the Indian sections in Force of Destiny — in which Maya returns to India to be by the bedside of her uncle (Mohan Agashe), also stricken by cancer — feel organic only to the film’s financing."^[5]