Based upon the Guy de Maupassant story, GOLDEN BRAID is an eccentric feature about the value of love and antiques from Paul Cox (MAN OF FLOWERS, A WOMAN'S TALE), the idiosyncratic Australian filmmaker.
Bernard Simon's (Chris Haywood) family home is full of the old-fashioned clocks, powered by springs and pendulums, that he repairs. He is drawn to the timepieces and various antiques, he explains, because of the generations of people who have lived with and loved them. Bernard's own love life is
far from seamless; he's having a long-term affair with a married social worker from the Salvation Army. (Her appearance in uniform at his front door is one of the film's ...
Released:
1990
Rated:
NR
Length:
91 mins