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lonely hearts

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Paul Cox, 95 mins, Australia, 1982, 35mm. Source: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia - The Kodak/Atlab Collection. Courtesy: Nine Network Australia

Lonely Hearts

In this gentle suburban romance, Wendy Hughes stars as a timid bank clerk who meets and falls in love with a piano tuner (Norman Kaye) twenty years her senior who has a tendency to shoplift.

Director Paul Cox had a major success with this second collaboration with Hughes who plays down her beauty to portray a dowdy and sexually inhibited woman. Her against-type performance gained her an AFI nomination for Best Actress in a Lead Role.