1984, 110 min
Country: Australia
Studio: Image
Cast: Norman Kaye, Alyson Best, Chris Haywood, Werner Herzog
Director: Paul Cox
Our Rating:
Man of Flowers
SKINOPSISThis artsy Australian film features full-frontal nudity from four different women. We'd like to call it gratuitous but as the nudity is often a crucial plot point, or simply the point we can't, but that doesn't make it less hot. -- Rick Stanko
REVIEW
An unusual understated Australian black comedy/drama. Kaye stars as a sexually repressed lover of art and flowers who, each Wednesday, pays a beautiful artist's model to perform an impassioned striptease to the strains of classical music. His lonely life, caused by childhood sexual traumas, is enlivened and upset as he reluctantly becomes involved with her tumultuous personal life. Lisa leaves her no-talent artist boyfriend and enters into a relationship with her friend jane, an attractive lesbian. The scenes of the two women together are handled so matter-of-factly that it makes bisexuality seem to be the norm. Weirdly funny, with a hypnotic, ever-present classical score.
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