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- 1994
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 38 m
- 1994
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 38 m
Summary When a painting is deemed blasphemous, a young minister and his wife visit the artist... and the three playful models living with him.
Directed By: John Duigan
Written By: John Duigan
- 1994
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 38 m
- 1994
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 38 m
Sirens
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6.5
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Summary When a painting is deemed blasphemous, a young minister and his wife visit the artist... and the three playful models living with him.
Directed By: John Duigan
Written By: John Duigan
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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65% Positive
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30% Mixed
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5% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
64
65% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
30% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Sirens aims at "Enchanted April," not at D. H. Lawrence. Languid, sexy, benevolently naughty, it's right on target. [11 March 1994, p.68]
Sirens is a brazen, luscious Australian sex comedy full of nature and nudity, flesh, food and fantasy. With its theme of erotic awakening on a painter's sunny Blue Mountains estate, and its frequent scenes of lush female models scampering around naked, it's often a pretty silly film. But it's also an immensely enjoyable one: a fairy tale in which everything-fashions, scenery, badinage, music, even moments of angst-becomes a kind of goofy aphrodisiac. [11 March 1994, p.C2]
SIRENS is a rare, genuinely erotic film that's a pleasure to watch even when its characters are fully clothed.
Despite all the nudity, it's less erotic than Duigan's charming schoolkids romance "Flirting." If only "Sirens" could have been a little livelier, if only Duigan, Grant and Neill had gone too far. [11 March 1994, p.D26]
Headily atmospheric, Duigan's film takes place in an outback of 'perpetual tumescence'. It's all very DH Lawrence, and consequently a mite predictable. The picture's strongest suit is Duigan's deft, witty touch, and the confident, classy playing (Grant's familiar stuttering Englishman notwithstanding). Duigan seems to lose his sense of irony entirely, however, when it comes to celebrating the standard soft-core coupling.
John Duigan's Sirens isn't an atrocious movie. After all, the filmmakers have found a way of showcasing Elle MacPherson's full talents without staging a wet T-shirt competition. Sirens -- which also stars Sam Neill, Tara Fitzgerald and Hugh Grant -- is a peculiar, not entirely undesirable sort of art-house hybrid, like a marriage between "Masterpiece Theatre" and "Baywatch." [11 March 1994, p.G1]
Sirens, is unable to rise above its intrinsic prurience.
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Production Company
British Screen Finance Ltd.,
Samson Productions Pty. Ltd.,
Sarah Radclyffe Productions - Sirens Limited,
WMG Film
Release Date Mar 11, 1994
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating R
Tagline In the 1930s, an artist and his models scandalized a nation with their controversial paintings. For a young couple, meeting them was the experience of a lifetime. [USA Theatrical]
Awards
Australian Film Institute
• 3 Nominations
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
