In the scene where Helen Mirren is sitting nude in front of a mirror applying makeup, when her grandmother appears and strikes her on the back, they get into a scuffle.
As the scene shifts, we can see that the formerly naked Mirren is now wearing a pair of white panties.
When Helen Mirren's character strips her shirt off beside the boat and dives below the water, she is wearing only a pair of swim fins.
However, when she gets to the bottom, she is now wearing a dive mask and snorkel.
In the subtitles, the radio announcer provides a station ID as 'Foreign Kay McKie'.
It should actually be 'Four En Kay (4NK) Mackay'.
Michael Powell, the famed British director best known as half of the famous Powell and Pressburger filmmaking team, was certainly in a rut in the late 1960s. After the vicious press response to his 1960 progressive serial killer thriller Peeping Tom, it was near impossible for him to make a film in England again.
One of Helen Mirren's first films is this unforgettable exotic drama that deals with a Hemingway like artist (James Mason) who, trying to find some ambition to get himself back behind the canvas, goes to a tropical setting where he becomes friendly with a local girl (Mirren) who models in the nude for him. She has a cackling, constantly drunk grandmother (Neva Carr-Glynn), certain that Mirren is fornicating with anything and everybody.
I liked this film for it's simplicity it's not too over the top & the point's of the film are hash out well.
Not for the first time and probably not the last I find myself watching a different film from the majority who have posted comments here. Apparently this was Michael Powell's last film, I have no idea what prevented him making more movies but if it wasn't natural causes that ended his career this turkey would have accomplished it in spades.
The second film to emerge from Michael Powell's Australian exile - and his last for a mainstream audience - still remains relatively obscure, and those introduced to it are usually surprised and delighted to discover that such a record exists of a young Helen Mirren romping starkers on the Great Barrier Reef.She herself disliked working working with Powell because he shouted a lot and was shocked at how enormous her backside looked on the big screen.
I remember there was a lot of media hype in Australia about this movie when it was first released. I thought it was a bit of an oddity then, and it definitely is today.
Age of Consent is a feeling where you are free to be yourself. The reefs are a pleasant place to be to get away from it all.
Perhaps the issue in "Age of Consent" is right there in the title, because that turns out to be the most problematic element. The film comes from the memoirs of artist Norman Lindsay, whose ideas about nudity and free love also got assayed in the film Sirens about 20 years after this one.
Fine acting by Mason and an early versión of Mirren which doesn't showcase her talent.
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