n film directed by Paul Cox
. It stars Sheila Florance
, Gosia Dobrowolska
, Norman Kaye
, Chris Haywood
and Ernie Gray.
Martha (Florance) is an elderly woman living alone in her flat and dying of cancer. Her love of life leads to an ambivalence about her age; her unique moral code leads to her playing cupid
for her friend and nurse Anna (Dobrowolska) and Anna’s married lover (Gray); her worrisome son (Haywood) wants her to move into a home; her neighbour Billy (Kaye) has dementia
.
Florance herself was dying of cancer as the film was being shot.
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philsophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy, in the minds of men.
ATHEISM: A godless religion that retains all the dogmatic posturing of the faiths it so confidently denies, with few of the consolations.