Sirens (1994)

Australian filmmaker John Duigan (The Year My Voice Broke, Wide Sargasso Sea) has a taste for sensual art direction that occasionally flares up in a big, big way. With Sirens, he manages to turn oceans of female nudity into a slightly tongue-in-cheek decorousness that is neither unpersuasively arty nor purely soft porn. Starring Hugh Grant (and released the same year as two other Grant vehicles, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bitter Moon, thus establishing him as a star), the film finds the handsome, stammering actor playing an Anglican priest newly posted to Australia. There, the clergyman's first mission is to convince a famously libertarian artist (Sam Neill) not to exhibit a painting with mixed erotic and religious themes. The experience of being at their host's anything-goes compound for a few days, however, nestled deep in the wilds and keeping company with uninhibited, frequently naked models proves terribly stirring for Grant and his character's timid wife (Tara Fitzgerald), the two of them a study in sexual repression. The film doesn't have a point so much as it does an appealing atmosphere of unbridled naturalism counterpointed by Grant's charming self-consciousness. Once you've grown accustomed to the phenomenal sight of an unclothed Elle Macpherson (who is actually very good in her acting debut as a semi-savage model) wandering toward the bank of a river, for instance, you realize she's only part of the amazing flora and fauna enriching this pocket of earth and the souls of our principal characters. --Tom Keogh Amazon.com

no issues of getting this tiem

made a mistake of ordering two but no problem of returning. it is being p rocessed to be taken care of without an argument. April 21, 2008

LOVED the movie! Bohemian, arty, sensual

I first saw this movie not long after it came out and again much later on. loved it then and now. far more sensual than i was aware at the time, loved it. its arty, If you are a lover of film festival movies you will probably really like it. Its no more sensual than the movie "The Piano".Look at its rating.

Its Bohemian! Things that go on behind closed doors. If you dont like living outside of the square on religion or sensuality then its probably not for you.

i absolutely love this movie. although made in 1994 i am compelled to add it to my collection in 2008. very different sort of movie. March 20, 2008

Free your inner goddess

Hugh Grant stars in this movie about a young reverend and his wife sent to Australia to minister to the flock. The reverend is asked to investigate an artist who painted a controversial work call "Crucified Venus." The reverand, who considers himself a progressive, is shocked at the amoral atmosphere surrounding the painter, his wife, and the three models living at his estate. The minister's wife has to deal with sexual urges while trying to remain loyal to her husband. The movie is about freeing your inner goddess. January 14, 2007

Queen of the Harpies!

A minister (Hugh Grant) and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) are sent to talk some good, Christian sense into pagan Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill), an artist whose work is a little too sexually graphic for the townsfolk. You can probably guess what transpires when this couple, which unwisely attempts to suppress their natural urges, meets the artist and his liberated group. The film is funny (deliberately, I might add) because we recognize the importance of indulging our desires, at least occasionally and in a sensible manner. Repression sounds like a good idea to some people from a religious or moral perspective, yet it can lead to undesirable behaviors. If there is one primary point to the film, I believe that is it. Pervasively sensual, this is a beautiful film for adults, with plenty to interest both men and women. August 18, 2006

Sirens

This is one of my favorite movies. It's so seductive and funny and beautiful all at the same time. Now, this is a chick flick. I don't know if most men would agree with me. If you like artsy films, you will probably enjoy this movie. July 13, 2006

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