Passion (eng)
A story of intense relationships and disturbing ideas, Passion explores the tortured genius of Percy Grainger, the celebrated pianist-composer who had to choose between the women in his life; his best friend's fiancee, his lover and his mother.
Starring:Richard Roxburgh, Barbara Hershey, Emily Woof.

Passion is based on the life of Percy Grainger (Richard Roxburgh), a genius pianist, who's renowned for his virtuoso playing of great works. From childhood, his mother Rose has guided him and built his career as a pianist. She loves him truly and believes him to be a genius. Therefore she feels obligated or rather her duty as a mother of a genius, to see to it that his full talents are realized.

Percy, however, is a man of strong passions. Drawn to the arts, he abhors the restrictions imposed by society. Therefore one of his favourite joys is composing. He draws inspiration from the simplest things such as birds chirping to a group of drunken men singing out of tune in a shanty pub. It is really quite remarkable watching the progression of his life as it makes you think of your own!

Throughout the movie, he questions the meaning of nobility and what is considered to be right and acceptable. Should one go through life worrying about every rule imposed by society? Or to be free to practice whatever one believes and be accepted for it?

Being a man of strong passions, women are a major part of his life. The relationship between Rose and him drew lots of speculation and is construed by society to be unnatural. However, women are drawn to his charming disposition and promises.

He starts to notice his best friend's fiancée, and sets out to charm her. However she manages to resist and instead introduces him to her friend Karen Holten, played by Emily Woolf. His mother takes a liking to Karen, and takes Karen into her home under the pretense of learning piano. The story starts to unfold now, focusing on the relationship between Percy, Emily and his mother.

While under Percy's tutorage, Karen starts to open her mind and learns to understand Percy and his unique ways. Percy sees great talent in Karen's playing but sees that she lacks true understanding of music and tries to free her mind.

Rose is relieved that Karen has managed to captivate Percy and strongly hopes that she will marry him. Suffering from syphilis, her health as well as her mental state of mind slowly deteriorates. Her main hope is that Karen will restrain Percy's darker passions, i.e. masochism.

However Karen is obsessed with Percy and encourages him in whatever makes him happy. She encourages his composing and playing his own music at recitals. Soon she gets involved with Percy's darker passions. Trouble begins when Rose finds out. Rose (Barbara Hershey), is portrayed very well here as a mother who is tries to be strong but is emotionally week and needy.

Passion is an Australian award winning film and it received the Australian Cinematographers Society award. It certainly is a well-directed film that will draw out the passion in any viewer!