Paul Cox dead: That's a wrap, but man of flowers was defiant to the end

By Karl Quinn
Updated June 23 2016 - 5:08pm, first published June 20 2016 - 9:48am
Paul Cox (right), with actor David Wenham, outside his Albert Park office last year.  Photo: Simon O'Dwyer
Paul Cox (right), with actor David Wenham, outside his Albert Park office last year. Photo: Simon O'Dwyer
Paul Cox (in 2000) wrote until the very end.  Photo: Marina Oliphant
Paul Cox (in 2000) wrote until the very end. Photo: Marina Oliphant

The big director in the sky has called a wrap on one of the most protracted death scenes in film, with Australian writer-director Paul Cox succumbing to the cancer he was first diagnosed with in February 2009, and which doctors had predicted would kill him within six months.

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