Of an Age is a 2022 Australian romantic drama film, directed and written by Goran Stolevski. The film stars Elias Anton as Kol, a Serbian immigrant in Australia who enters a brief but intense romance with Adam (Thom Green), the brother of his ballroom dance partner Ebony (Hattie Hook).
The film premiered on 4 August 2022 at the Melbourne International Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at CinefestOZ, where it was the winner of the Best Film Award. Of an Age was released in the United States by Focus Features on 17 February 2023, and will be later in Australia by Roadshow Films on 23 March 2023.
Trailer
Cast
- Elias Anton as Kol
- Thom Green as Adam
- Hattie Hook as Ebony
- Toby Derrick as Jacob
- Grace Graznak as Cora
- Jessica Lu as Jenny
- Jack Kenny as Mellor
- Kasuni Imbulana as Tari
- Verity Higgins as Fay
Making Of
Writer/director Goran Stolevski and the lead cast of Of An Age reveal how they filmed the coming-of-age queer drama days ahead of schedule.
With this small window of opportunity, Stolevski and his casting team began to search for the two leading roles that ultimately went to Elias Anton and Thom Green. For Green, it was Stolevski’s naturalistic approach to filmmaking that appealed to him.
“I think it was day seven [on set] that I realised we didn’t have any shot bags on the ground for marks,” explains Green. “Then you see Matty C[haung], who’s the DOP, he’s following us around with the camera sort of finding us with these 360 degree shots. Like, what more do you want as a performer?”
In these two behind-the-scenes videos, Stolevski details the process that went into casting the lead roles and why he shoots close ups of actors first, rather than wide shots. Elias Anton, who plays Kol, talks about learning to dance for two crucial scenes while Thom Green expresses his hopes for audiences to connect with the film no matter how they identify.
Critical Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 87% of 54 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8/10. The website’s consensus reads, “While it may not belong in the upper ranks of cinematic queer love stories, Of an Age is a moving romance elevated by powerhouse performances.” Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 69 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating “generally favourable reviews”
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Director and Writer Goran Stolevski
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