Michael Powell teamed with actor James Mason who also coproduced to make a film loosely based on the life of controversial Australian artist Norman Lindsay Age Of Consent stars Mason as a jaded painter who heads Down Under looking for a way to revitalize his creative soul His selfimposed exile is interrupted by Cora an uninhibited young woman on her own journey of selfdiscovery The Age of Consent 1969 is Powells final film centers on James Mason as a disenchanted painter who finds a new muse in a tropical island model a radiant and sensual often nude Helen Mirren in her first movie role
