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Sirens - DVD

SKU: 3632714 | Release Date: 5/18/1999

Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children

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Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 1994
Length: 94 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: Dramadies
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Synopsis

Sex, religion, and morality are the key ingredients in this Australian comedy set in the 1930s. Rev. Anthony Campion (Hugh Grant) is a liberal, forward-thinking Anglican priest who is sent on an unusual assignment. Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill) is a popular and highly controversial artist whose paintings often feature voluptuous nude women; his latest major exhibition is to feature a work called The Crucified Venus, which depicts a naked female impaled on a cross. Outraged, the Anglican Bishop of Sydney wants Campion to visit Lindsay and persuade him to remove the work from his show. Rev. Campion and his wife, Estella (Tara Fitzgerald), travel to Lindsay's Blue Mountain estate, where the artist is hard at work with a bevy of lovely nude models in tow, including Sheela (Elle MacPherson), Giddy (Portia de Rossi), and Pru (Kate Fischer). The Reverend is quietly appalled by the open sensuality of Lindsay's household, and Estella is mortified; they're even more upset when Lindsay calmly but firmly refuses to remove The Crucified Venus from his show. However, the longer the Campions stay with Lindsay in hopes of changing his mind, the more they find themselves drawn into the sensuous pleasures of his world. Sirens was based on an actual incident and Norman Lindsay was a real artist of the period (his life was depicted in the film Age of Consent, in which he was played by James Mason). But audiences were probably less interested in art and cultural history than in the opportunity to see supermodel Elle MacPherson appear undraped; she also gives a fine and charming comic performance, as do Hugh Grant and Tara Fitzgerald. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Sound

Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel/stereo

Languages/Sound

Eng

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Eng

Additional Features

Dolby Surround Chapter search

Series

Miramax Classics

Chapters

Side #1 --
0. Chapter Selection
1. Program Start [:16]
2. Opening Credits [10:20]
3. Meeting Mr. Lindsay [5:34]
4. After-Dinner Conversation [4:12]
5. Fairies Appear At Midnight [8:12]
6. In Lindsay's Studio [8:43]
7. A Heated Discussion [5:26]
8. Estella Wanders [3:05]
9. Estella Finds Devlin Alone [2:57]
10. The Girls At The Pub [7:10]
11. At Devlin's Campsite [7:03]
12. Drawn To The Studio [7:19]
13. Stealing Off In The Night [6:22]
14. The Final Dinner Together [6:07]
15. Heeding The Sirens' Call [8:38]
16. End Credits [2:34]

Cast

Vincent Ball - Bishop of Sydney
Elle MacPherson - Sheela
Ben Mendelsohn - Lewis
Sam Neill - Norman Lindsay
John Polson - Tom
Peter Campbell - Articulate Drunk
Julia Stone - Jane
Pamela Rabe - Rose Lindsay
Ellie MacCarthy - Honey
Mark Gerber - Devlin
Kate Fischer - Pru
Tara Fitzgerald - Estella Campion
Hugh Grant - Rev. Anthony Campion
John Duigan - Earnest Minister
Portia de Rossi - Giddy

Crew

Producer: Sue Milliken
First Assistant Director: P.J. Voeten
Executive Producer: Justin Ackerman
Makeup: Noriko Watanabe
Sound/Sound Designer: David Lee
Co-producer: Sarah Radclyffe
Composer (Music Score): Rachel Portman
Costume Designer: Terry Ryan
Casting: Liz Mullinar
Cinematographer: Geoff Burton
Composer (Music Score): Geoffrey Burgon
Executive Producer: Hans Brockmann
Editor: Humphrey Dixon
Production Designer: Roger Ford
Art Director: Laurie Faen
Screenwriter: John Duigan
Director: John Duigan
Executive Producer: Robert Jones
Producer: Jon Acevski
Screenwriter: Jon Acevski

Sirens: AMG Review
Michael Costello , AMG

John Duigan's gently playful erotic comedy on the transformative powers of sex manages to offer a measure of insight along with the sight of three surpassingly beautiful women scampering about naked. Hugh Grant stars as a young English clergyman who journeys to the rural abode of a notoriously controversial painter with orders to persuade him to remove one of his more blasphemous works from public exhibition. Yet, when the repressed cleric and his similar wife arrive, it's Sam Neill's painter and his trio of lover/models who prove far more effective at the art of persuasion. The film, which comes to focus on the young wife's gradual unfolding, is more interested in attitudes toward sex, and its relationship to character, than sex itself. Grant and Tara Fitzgerald as his prim wife are perfectly cast as a pair in need of stimulation, and Neill is surprisingly good in this prankish departure from the kind of serious roles he usually plays. Elle MacPherson also acquits herself well, although after watching her frolic mostly nude for two hours, the viewer's judgment may have been slightly compromised. ~ Michael Costello, All Movie Guide

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