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    Sirens (1993)

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    A repressed British couple, Anthony and Estella Campion, become inexorably intoxicated by the sultry air surrounding artist Norman Lindsay and his bevy of naked models, played by Elle Macpherson, Kate Fischer and Portia de Rossi (pictured at right).

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    Anthony (Hugh Grant) is a priest – albeit a ‘progressive’ one with a taste for modern art and contemporary philosophy – and so he engages Lindsay in debates that ponderously dramatise the concerns of the film. A token emblem of class conflict is added to the discussion via the proletarian interpolations of Pru (Fischer).

    Sirens is a film devoted to mellow compromises between all these extreme positions, rather than melodramatic confrontation. It is ultimately an extremely tame piece, in which nothing much really happens.

    This is especially so on the sexual plane. Everything is fantasy, titillation, languorous craving – at least for the women characters. since (as Norman assures us) they are the “embodiment of sexuality”.

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    Anthony Campion
    Hugh Grant
    Estella Campion

    Tara Fitzgerald
    Norman Lindsay

    Sam Neill
    Sheela

    Elle Macpherson
    Giddy

    Portia de Rossi
    Pru

    Kate Fischer
    Rose Lindsay

    Pamela Rabe
    Lewis

    Ben Mendelsohn
    Tom

    John Polson
    Devlin

    Mark Gerber
    Jane

    Julia Stone
    Honey

    Ellis MacCarthy
    Bishop of Sydney

    Vincent Ball

    Director
    John Duigan

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