Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm is a film that relies heavily on its stars. What draws the audience through grande dame Elizabeth Hunter’s long, slow – and hilarious and ultimately moving – decline is the film’s remarkable cast.

It’s quite a roll call: Judy Davis in a jaw-droppingly nuanced performance as Hunter’s daughter, the Princesse de Lascabane; Charlotte Rampling, effortlessly morphing from middle to old age in the lead and Geoffrey Rush, risking his own reflection to play a man playing a man as her actor son Sir Basil Hunter.