The Challenge of Life: Paul Cox's Force of Destiny

This semi-autobiographical work by renowned auteur Paul Cox chronicles how one man conquers the threat of terminal cancer, relearning how to live – and love – in the process. According to Rose Lucas, the film also evidences art's ability to elucidate the relationships between environment and emotion, time and transformation, and person and possibility.

Additional keywords: illness, death, existential crisis, David Wenham.