See this film: Age of Consent at the MFA
Video slightly NSFW
Nine years after nearly ending his extraordinary film
career with his brilliant, disturbing, and reviled Peeping
Tom
(1960), Michael Powell returned to the screen with a bit of voyeurism that was
easier on the eyes. Age
Of Consent (1969), which would prove
to be his last feature, stars James Mason as an aging artist who retires to an
Australian island to seek inspiration and finds it the form of a nubile, often-nude
beauty played by a 20-something Helen Mirren. It screens Friday, August 12 at 7:45 pm,
Saturday, August 13 at 11 am, and Sunday, August 14 at 3 pm at the Museum of Fine Arts, 465
Huntington Ave, Boston | $11; $9 students, seniors | 617.369.3907 or
mfa.org/programs/film.