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A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.
A young man named David struggles to reconcile his feelings for his mother's lesbian lover with his own budding sexuality and his family's complex, hidden past. As he delves deeper into the secrets surrounding his family, he uncovers a disturbing truth about his lineage and the true nature of their relationships.
The Everlasting Secret Family is a challenging and unsettling Australian drama that explores themes of sexuality, family secrets, and psychological turmoil. It garnered attention for its confrontational subject matter and its exploration of taboo relationships.
Praised for its bold exploration of complex and controversial themes.
Noted for its intense psychological drama and unsettling atmosphere.
Some found the subject matter difficult and confronting.
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The film was controversial upon its release due to its explicit depiction of incestuous and homosexual themes, making it a significant, albeit divisive, entry in Australian cinema.
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There is something quite creepily unremarkable about the basic, fairly odious, premise of this drama. That is the fact that a wealthy and influential Australian senator (Arthur Dignam) has a penchant for schoolboys in their later teens, and...