Lust and Revenge (1996)
- Director(s):
- Paul Cox
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This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a sculptor suitable of her father's sponsorship. Normally, George doesn't give a hoot about art, but tax time approaches and he needs a big deduction. Since large bronze statues are 100% deductible, that's what he wants. Georgina comes through with the lesbian sculptor Lily Carmichael who suggests a detailed male nude, sans fig leaf. For her model, lily chooses unemployed hunk Karl-Heinz Applebaum who at first doesn't realize he is to model totally nude. Fortunately, coquettish Georgina is around to convince him to shed those clothes. He soon begins looking forward to the sessions much to the dismay of his frowsy, sexually frosty wife Cecilia, a devout member of the "Center for Synchronic Awareness," an esoteric religious cult which is headed by the oily, avaricious Baba Charles whose picture Cecilia has placed throughout her home (Aussie film buffs may recognize the photo as that of director Rolf de Heer, a rival of this film's director Paul Cox). Soon enough, her husband and Georgina become lovers causing Cecilia to hatch an elaborate plot for revenge, a plot in which the financially beleaguered George Oliphant unwittingly assists by having her pose with her husband for an even larger, more tax deductible sculpture. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Gosia Dobrowolska - Cecilia Applebaum
- John Hargreaves - Gallery Sleaze
- Wendy Hughes - Oliphant's Adviser
- Robert Menzies - Psychiatrist
- Norman Kaye - Baba Charles
- Victoria Eagger - Lily Carmichael
- Max Gillies - Neil Pringle
- Chris Haywood - George Oliphant
- Claudia Karvan - Georgina Oliphant
- Paul Cox - New Age Customer
- Pamela Rabe - Obnoxious Woman
- Ulli Birve - Anna
- Director(s):
- Paul Cox
- Producer(s):
- Paul Cox, Jane Ballantyne
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