Sirens - 1994 - 6/10
Young missionary and his wife (Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald) are sent to Australia
Within his parish is Norman Lindsay, eminent artist of nudes and sacrilegious subject matter.
The minster seems to visit every time Lindsay’s three models are disrobed, and flirting.
Although tame today, the artist and his works were highly controversial in the 1920’s.
The narrative, if you are not too distracted by stretches of naked flesh, is soft temptation.
As well as liberation and emancipation, sexual and feminine.
Not a “great” film, still a personal favorite that I have watched numerous times.
