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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Miramax
Salesrank: 16695
Released: May 18, 1999 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Sexy and spirited, this endearingly funny comedy has captivated moviegoers everywhere! The charming Hugh Grant (FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) plays an idealistic young minister on a mission. He must tame the wicked ways of a notorious artist (Sam Neill -- JURASSIC PARK), whose nude paintings of his beautiful models (including sexy supermodel Elle MacPherson) scandalize the nation! Intent on delivering salvation, the repressed reverend and his wife instead are led into temptation by their playfully seductive hosts and sensuous new surroundings! Enchantingly sexy fun from beginning to end -- you too will find the allure of SIRENS irresistible!
Description of Sirens:
Australian filmmaker John Duigan (The Year My Voice Broke, Wide Sargasso Sea) has a taste for sensual art direction that occasionally flares up in a big, big way. With Sirens, he manages to turn oceans of female nudity into a slightly tongue-in-cheek decorousness that is neither unpersuasively arty nor purely soft porn. Starring Hugh Grant (and released the same year as two other Grant vehicles, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bitter Moon, thus establishing him as a star), the film finds the handsome, stammering actor playing an Anglican priest newly posted to Australia. There, the clergyman's first mission is to convince a famously libertarian artist (Sam Neill) not to exhibit a painting with mixed erotic and religious themes. The experience of being at their host's anything-goes compound for a few days, however, nestled deep in the wilds and keeping company with uninhibited, frequently naked models proves terribly stirring for Grant and his character's timid wife (Tara Fitzgerald), the two of them a study in sexual repression. The film doesn't have a point so much as it does an appealing atmosphere of unbridled naturalism counterpointed by Grant's charming self-consciousness. Once you've grown accustomed to the phenomenal sight of an unclothed Elle Macpherson (who is actually very good in her acting debut as a semi-savage model) wandering toward the bank of a river, for instance, you realize she's only part of the amazing flora and fauna enriching this pocket of earth and the souls of our principal characters. --Tom Keogh
Sirens Reviews:
Great scenery, but otherwise dull 
2009-10-08 - Even Elle Macpherson's estimable talents are not enough to make up for this film's dull, predictable plot and heavy handed attempts at symbolism. The acting and production are competent if uninspired. Also the DVD is letterboxed 4:3 ratio rather than true 16:9. This is not a terrible movie, but ultimately there's only one, well two, good reasons to watch it.
Annoying inaccuracy and pandering
2009-01-27 - It's obvious the filmmakers were pandering to the male populace in including beautiful, skinny, proof-that-supermodels-shouldn't-act air-headed Elle MacPherson. Why is my beef that she's skinny? Norman Lindsay painted lovely big Rubenesque women. The dimensions of queen Latifah might not have been as, er, crowd-pleasing but would at least have been real. If people want to look at Elle, there are a million websites. Some of us prefer real actors, real women, and accuracy.
Overtly sensual, subtly revealing 
2008-09-15 - Sirens
At first I thought this would be a light comedy--a sexy and spirited comedy. But it is not that at all.
True, there's witty dialogue and some humorous moments, but Sirens is a deeper tred into a world where paganism and Christianity collide.
The Reverend Campion (Hugh Grant) and his wife Estella (Tara Fitzgerald)journey to Australia for the purpose of dissuading artist Norman Lindsey (Sam Neill)from displaying some of his most controversial paintings in an art exhibit.
The repressed campions are houseguests of Lindsey and his wife and the sensuous young women who pose for the artist.
This is a story on many levels, but it is primarily Estella's journey from repression to desire.
There's lots of nudity, gorgeous photography and poignant moments in this first class story of liberation and seduction. Super model Elle makes her film debut as one of the sirens.
no issues of getting this tiem 
2008-04-21 - made a mistake of ordering two but no problem of returning. it is being p rocessed to be taken care of without an argument.
LOVED the movie! Bohemian, arty, sensual 
2008-03-20 - I first saw this movie not long after it came out and again much later on. loved it then and now. far more sensual than i was aware at the time, loved it. its arty, If you are a lover of film festival movies you will probably really like it. Its no more sensual than the movie "The Piano".Look at its rating.
Its Bohemian! Things that go on behind closed doors. If you dont like living outside of the square on religion or sensuality then its probably not for you.
i absolutely love this movie. although made in 1994 i am compelled to add it to my collection in 2008. very different sort of movie.
