Eliza Pryor Nagel Movies
Photographer Anne Norda makes her feature directorial debut with this sexually charged drama concerning a pair of married artists who are forced to confront their unfulfilled desires after a sexually ambiguous nude model prompts a sexual and spiritual awakening. The toast of the art world due to her signature blood paintings, Mary Shaw (Irina Bjorklund) is experiencing the kind of fame that her husband David Stellar (Peter Franzen) could only hope for. While Mary's paintings are vivid and provocative, David's realistic nudes simply aren't hip enough to get him a gallery show. Stubbornly refusing his change his style, David continues work on his latest painting - a smoldering portrait of seductive blue-eyed blonde Julie Belle (Eliza Pryor Nagel. Her curiosity about her husband's latest subject piqued, Mary begins to develop a casual relationship with Julie that quickly blossoms into something more due to the model's free spirit and unguarded honesty. Meanwhile, as Mary's relationship with Julie grows increasingly intimate, David struggles to avoid temptation and keep his crumbling marriage intact. Just as Mary begins to question her carefully constructed existence, however, Julie's duplicitous mask of detachment comes off, plunging all three into a precarious state of emotional chaos and forcing them to consider what it truly means to be free. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Irina Björklund, Peter Franzen, (more)
- 2003
As Jasmine (Gina Torres) prepares to secure her dominion over the entire planet via a worldwide satellite broadcast, Angel (David Boreanaz) makes his way through the last dimension to enjoy her oppressive love. There, amidst a desolate, otherworldly landscape, he encounters Jasmine's High Priest (Robert Towers), who taunts the vampire champion about all that Jasmine has taken from him. Back on earth, Connor (Vincent Kartheiser) captures Wesley (Alexis Denisof), Fred (Amy Acker), Gunn (J. August Richards), and Lorne (Andy Hallett), but Jasmine keeps them as bargaining chips rather than killing them. As the interloping higher power devours another flock of her followers, Connor stuns his prisoners by revealing that he's been able to see her pestilent true face all along. Upset that Jasmine still won't divulge what happened to Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), Connor beats the information out of some acolytes. Rather than being eaten by her demon love-child, it seems that Cordy has been squirreled away for safekeeping. Connor finds his paramour and confesses to her still-unconscious form that despite his desperate need for belonging, he recognizes the danger of Jasmine's coercive agenda for peace. Back at the hotel, as the bug-faced one begins her global address, Angel arrives to reveal her true name to the assembled throng. All across the planet, people are suddenly able to see the higher being for what she truly is. Rioting breaks out, and in the climactic battle that follows, Jasmine is felled once and for all by an unlikely opponent. A battered Angel returns to the hotel, sick with worry about Connor, only to find a surprise visitor: the late Lilah Morgan (Stephanie Romanov), who was last seen as a headless corpse (see "Salvage"). Originally broadcast April 30, 2003, on the WB network, "Peace Out" marked season four, episode 21 of the supernatural soap opera. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
