Certain actors seem to pop up in movies together. Anyway, Tara Fitzgerald and Sam Neill have worked with Grant in other films, and I just wonder how the casting works, and how often actors ask for, request, or suggest other actors to appear with them in different films.
In this one, Antony (Hugh Grant) is a clergyman who is going to visit Australian artist, Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill), with the purpose of maybe convincing him to tone down the obscenity in his paintings? Antony acknowledges that nudity can be completely fine, but there's a difference between nudity and obscenity. He brings Estella (Tara Fitzgerald), his wife, along.
The Sirens are Norman's models. Norman's compound and studio is somewhere inconveniently located in the Australian outback, and as it turns out, Estella and Antony get stuck there for a few days. Sheela (Elle Macpherson) and Pru (Tziporah Malkah) are the main two Sirens, but maybe they're not the only ones to count as "sirens." Nevertheless, they are the two most obvious ones.
Antony, we might suspect, will be the one tempted by the Sirens, but in fact, it's Estella. She's looking for something more out of life than "the missionary position," and being stuck at Norman's place gives her the chance to experiment. She even poses for one of his paintings. At least we assume she does. He's somehow able to paint her naked, although we never do see her pose.
Anyway, the film gets some criticism for its nudity but come on. It's about sirens. How could you not have nudity in a film about sirens? Actually, after reading some negative reviews, I figured this one would be pretty bad, but the movie exceeded my expectations.
Rating: 4/5 stars
Comments
Post a Comment