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Sirens

4.6

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Original title

Sirens

Year

1993

Running time

94 min.

Country

Australia

Director

John Duigan

Screenwriter

John Duigan

Cast

Music

Rachel Portman

Cinematography

Geoff Burton

Producer

British Screen Finance Ltd., Samson Productions, Sarah Radclyffe Productions - Sirens Limited, WMG Film. Distributor: Miramax

Genre

Drama | 1930s. Small Town Life (Non-North American)

Synopsis

When a young English minister (Hugh Grant) takes an Australian parish, his first assignment is to dissuade a local painter (Sam Neill) from showing a provocative painting. He and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) visit the artists home only to be smitten by three ravishing models posing, ironically, as the mythological sirens who lured men to their doom. On the artists bohemian estate, the minister and his wife are shown a guilt-free Eden-like world where they find their own sexuality awakening.

Awards: 1994: Chicago Film Critics Association: Best Promising Actor (Hugh Grant)

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Critics' reviews

"The movie does indeed feature much footage of MacPherson and her sister sirens in the nude, but it is smarter, more thoughtful and more good-tempered than you might expect."

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Languid, sexy, benevolently naughty, it's right on target."

Jay Carr: Boston Globe
"'Sirens', is unable to rise above its intrinsic prurience"

Marjorie Baumgarten: Austin Chronicle
"A deliciously sexy and hedonistic comedy of morals and manners, filmed amid some of Australia's most spectacular scenery"

David Stratton: Variety
Sirens is a brazen, luscious Australian sex comedy full of nature and nudity, flesh, food and fantasy (...) But it's also an immensely enjoyable on"

Michael Wilmington: Chicago Tribune
"A peculiar, not entirely undesirable sort of art-house hybrid, like a marriage between 'Masterpiece Theatre' and 'Baywatch.'"

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post

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Sirens

1993

John Duigan

4.6

(2,254)