Australian and New Zealand Actress Nude Guide November 2022

 

28/11/2022

The movies of Paul Cox (part 4): The 2000s

This final lot of movies from Paul Cox are a little outside of his comfort zone. Movies are more about dealing with ageing while his final movie is about his own struggle with cancer. A wider range of actors while still casting a number of his usual actors. He also made an international film and made some movies in overseas locales like Belgium, France and India. Also he moved from filming in Melbourne and made a couple of movies in South Australia.

I've just rewatched all of the below movies in the last week bar Salvation which I only watched for the first time recently. Some I hadn't seen since I capped them over 10 years ago. All of the collages and videos below are not new and the sources are about the best available at the moment. The quality of the videos below are significantly better with the movies being made in the digital age so the videos below are either from DVD or even in HD.

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)

OK, it's not a 2000 movie but it's also a rare for-hire directorial gig for Cox, an international production about the real-life Belgian priest Father Damien (David Wenham) who volunteered to go to the leper colony on Molokai to bring religion to the lawless island. What he did was transform the place to the point where even the political and religious bureaucracies had to give in to his want for more money and further help to make the island liveable and give some comfort for the patients. It's fairly good and Wenham is great but there's a strange feel at times where scenes feel like they were put in to explain stuff that was happening. There's a five minute segment where it's just characters writing letters. Derek Jacobi's character is such a snivelling character that it's comical. Kris Kristofferson plays a character with the weirdest accent I've ever heard. I think he's supposed to be Hawaiian but I have no idea what he's ended up with. It also doesn't feel all that much like a Paul Cox movie although one or two of his regulars turn up.

There's no nudity in this movie, a rarity for a Paul Cox movie.

 

Innocence (2000)

The first of Cox's South Australian movies (although there are some scenes set at Flinders Street Station in Melbourne) also some scenes are shot in Belgium. The elderly Andreas (Charles 'Bud' Tingwell) decides to get in touch with his first love Claire (Julia Blake) just to see her and when they meet, the spark of 40 years previous is reignited and they fall in love again despite Claire being married to John (Terry Norris). Both are reborn and Claire doesn't even bother to hide it, telling her husband she's met with her ex and slept with him but he doesn't believe her and gets his doctor son (Robert Menzies) to check if she hasn't gone 'mad'. Then Andreas falls ill and is close to dying so Claire decides to leave her husband to spend his final days with Andreas which completely throws John who starts following her to see what she's doing. Very good movie about first love rekindled as last love although the ending is a bit hokey. Possibly his most well-known movie and it had a bit of international success.

There's a bit of nudity in this movie. Belgian actress Kristine Van Pellicom has a few decent nude scenes while Julia Blake shows some brief side-boob in a couple of scenes. Also Angela Noack shows some nudity playing a dead body that is being removed from a grave.

Kristine Van Pellicom in Innnocence

    

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Julia Blake in Innnocence

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Angela Noack in Innnocence

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Human Touch (2004)

Back into an more artful area with Human Touch as we follow Anna (Jacqueline McKenzie), who is a lead singer in a choir who comes to the attention of photographic artist Edward (Chris Haywood). She decides to model for him and he gives her money to go towards the choir who are about to tour China. This is fine until her struggling artist husband David (Aaron Blabey) sees the photos and starts to believe that Anna and Edward are having an affair, not helped by his friend George (Aden Young) fanning those flames. David questions their marriage and what she's doing with George. Anna agrees to a refresh of their marriage in France. OK movie that plays up the human instinct of what love is and what happens when it's challenged. A bit saucier than usual as it involves some nude modelling plus a bit of sexual frustration. Does have a pretty funny scene where British actor Simon McBurney turns up as a Frenchman who goes to far with Anna so David stops at his shop and punches him in the face.

Quite a bit of nudity from Jacqueline in this movie, probably her best nudity with a few scenes of nude modelling. Also a nude scene from Poh Ling Yeow as she gives a nude massage to a sexually frustrated David. She is far better known now for her numerous TV cooking shows. Angela Noack is nude again in some photos playing Edward's mother, who he considered his best model before Anna.

Jacqueline McKenzie in Human Touch

February 2012 collages

    
    
    

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Rebecca Frith in Human Touch

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Poh Ling Yeow in Human Touch

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Angela Noack in Human Touch

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Salvation (2008)

Capped this movie recently which I thought was only a few months ago but it turns out that it was exactly a year ago. Where did the time go?

Basically it's the story of the husband (Bruce Myles) of a bossy spiritual healer (Wendy Hughes) who decides to go see a Russian sex worker (Natalia Novikova) to satisfy his sexual needs although their sessions are not really sexual. They form a relationship where he helps her get out of her abusive relationship with her pimp. A fairly accessible movie for a Paul Cox movie although it is heavy-handed at times, one scene at a gallery is particularly egregious. It basically turns into a 'hooker with a heart of gold' story as both people end up helping one another.

There's some brief nudity from Natalia Novikova where she shows her breasts as she lays on a couch.

Natalia Novikova in Salvation

    

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Wendy Hughes in Salvation

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Force of Destiny (2015)

Final movie from Cox which mirrors his own personal struggles with cancer. An artist Robert (David Wenham) finds out that he has liver cancer and he's going to die if he doesn't get a transplant. Meanwhile, he strikes up a relationship with Maya (Shahana Goswami) who's own uncle is dying while forming closer relationships with his daughter Poppy (Hannah Fredericksen) and ex-wife (Jacqueline McKenzie). Unusually heavy-handed from Cox who wants to make sure how hard going through cancer is with lingering shots of Robert and also other shots of people with their own struggles. The central relationship is where the movie is at it's best but it is paused for the final act as Maya goes back home to see her uncle as he gets a transplant. It's a worthy movie for it's subject matter but not one of Cox's best.

There's some brief nudity from Indian actress Shahana Goswami who shows a breast as she lays with Robert on a beach.

Shahana Goswami in Force Of Destiny

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So that's all of the available feature films made by Australian auteur Paul Cox, 18 in all with 16 of them featuring nudity. I would love to get a hold of his impossible-to-find earlier movies, maybe they'll turn up somewhere in the future plus hopefully a bunch of his movies will get a wider digital release.

It's just good to finally finish watching all of his movies and putting a dent in what I have to see in regards to Australian movies. I'd been hoping to finish off capping Cox's collection of movies for a while and it also means a lot less movies I need to find/go through for the site. Personally, I'm surprised that I actually got it done in the time that I did and didn't get distracted by other things.

I now have about 50-60 VHS rips of Australian movies from the 70s-90s that I got from a collector more than 10 years years ago left to watch. Some of which probably don't have anything to cap but I'll check them anyway. There's no real standouts in what I have, I think I've found most of the obvious movies to cap but there might be some hidden gems in the pack. I've also just passed capping 800 Australian movies and I've watched a further 250 movies that had nothing to cap. I also have capped 99 New Zealand movies so number 100 is just around the corner.

I've also updated the nude guide with all of Cox's movies now listed.

 

New Entries:
Wendy Hughes in Kostas (1979 movie)
Alyson Best, Sarah Walker, Victoria Eagger and Hilary Kelly in Man Of Flowers (1983 movie)
Wendy Hughes in My First Wife (1984 movie)
Anna Maria Monticelli and Monica Maughan in Handle With Care (1985 TV movie)
Sheila Florance and Gosia Dobrowolska in A Woman's Tale (1991 movie)
Gosia Dobrowolska in The Nun and the Bandit (1992 movie)
Claudia Karvan and Gosia Dobrowolska in Lust and Revenge (1996 movie)

 

Tags: Kristine Van Pellicom, Julia Blake, Angela Noack, Jacqueline McKenzie, Rebecca Frith, Poh Ling Yeow, Natalia Novikova, Wendy Hughes, Shahana Goswami

 

20/11/2022

The movies of Paul Cox (part 3): The 90s

A wider variety of movies from Cox with a couple of period movies plus in the least surprising development, he made an Erotic Tales short which is actually his most sexually charged work.

The quality of the video vary with a couple of decent VHS rips of A Woman's Tale and Lust and Revenge, a DVD of The Nun and the Bandit which isn't the best as the sound mix is off and some of the more detailed shots are blurry.

A Woman's Tale (1991)

Cox heads deeply into death and old age in this movie about Martha (Sheila Florance), an independent 78 year-old woman who is rapt just being alive while others her age are struggling. She's struck up a friendship with her part-time care nurse Anna (Gosia Dobrowolska), so much so that she allows her to conduct her affair with a married man at her house. Martha's not without issues like having to look after her forgetful neighbour or the landlords always looking for something more. Then Martha has a spell and has to face death but she's going her way. Excellent movie bolstered by a great final performance from Florance (best known for her role as Lizzie Birdsworth on Prisoner) who died just after the movie was released. She just lights up the screen like nothing else and makes this probably Cox's best movie.

A little bit of nudity in this movie, a bath scene from Sheila and Gosia Dobrowolska briefly shows her breasts as she dresses.

Sheila Florance in A Woman's Tale

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Gosia Dobrowolska in A Woman's Tale

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The Nun and the Bandit (1992)

The first time Cox made a movie not set in the present day and this is about a farmer (Chris Haywood) who lives with his discarded brothers/half brothers. When he finds out that his father, who fathered many children, died with a large estate, the farmer comes to town to demand what it rightfully his from the heirs but they push him away when he demands $50,000. The farmer isn't happy so he kidnaps one of his daughters who is travelling with a nun (Gosia Dobrowolska). He wants to let the nun go back to town to tell the family what he's done but she won't leave the daughter, so he takes them both. The family won't pay, his brothers think the farmer has gone mad and the farmer wants something from this so he turns his attention to the nun who he decides to make his wife, much to her objection. The farmer gets into a psychological battle develops between the two which the nun struggles with against her will.

This movie isn't much fun basically turning into a two-hander for the second half as the rest of the cast seem to have abandoned it. You can see the nun wasn't going to cope with the incredibly persistent farmer and the movie dawdles to it ending. Strangely this movie would show up semi-regularly late night on Channel 9 including as recently as the last 5-10 years. Never got around to watching it until now, kept meaning too but it was probably for the best.

Some further nudity from Gosia in three separate scenes, mostly brief stuff and used to show her character's mental degradation.

Gosia Dobrowlolska in The Nun and the Bandit

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Erotic Tales: Touch Me (1993)

This short movie was made amongst the first batch of Erotic Tales and it's not surprising that Cox was tapped to make one. He once more casts Gosia Dobrowolska as an art teacher who goes on a getaway with her younger nude model (Claudia Karvan in her first Paul Cox production). There, they further their sexual flirtations. Quite a bit of sex and nudity in this one and some lengthy lesbian action between Gosia and Claudia. I've had this on the site for well over a decade as it used to turn up on SBS semi-regularly through the 90s and well into the early 2010s but here it is again.

Claudia Karvan in Touch Me

        
    

An extra special big cap made from 9 different caps

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Gosia Dobrowolska in Touch Me

        
    

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Exile (1994)

I capped this movie back in 2011. Another period drama, possibly the most minimalist of Cox's movies and that's saying something. Peter (Aden Young) is 'exiled' to an island off Tasmania after being found guilty of stealing sheep. He's left to his own devices and starts seeing a ghost when he's not remembering things. Then a maid Mary (Beth Champion) of Peter's intended love Jean (Claudia Karvan) hears about Peter and decides to join him on the island. They eventually get together and have a child together while Jean's life falls apart. Then they get married. That's about it.

I remember that this movie got a strange amount of love from of all places TV Week magazine who was excited that two young stars (Claudia and Aden) and lovers at the time were in a movie together. I just imagine the look on the face of those TV Week readers when the finally get a hold of the movie and watch this screensaver of a movie. My memory is that this movie didn't get a cinema release as Cox was waning in popularity (apparently The Nun and the Bandit was his first movie not to get a cinema release) and barely got a release on VHS. I got it from an American DVD as it's never made it that far in Australia.

A little bit of nudity in this movie, a brief nipple peek from Claudia and a couple of brief scenes where she shows her breasts from Beth Champion (although maybe not the breastfeeding one).

Claudia Karvan in Exile

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Beth Champion in Exile

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Lust and Revenge (1996)

Cox gets back with John Clarke (who co-wrote Lonely Hearts) for another light comedy, this time set in the art world where a new wing of a gallery is being opened and a celebrated sculptor (Victoria Eagger) is commissioned for a new piece. With the gallery director's daughter Georgina (Claudia Karvan), they decide on an ordinary looking man Karl-Heinz (Nicholas Hope, Bad Boy Bubby himself who briefly turns up in Exile) as her model. This works out well for him and his wife Cecilia (Gosia Dobrowolska) as he's getting $10,000 and they might be able to live in a cottage like they planned. But it turns out to be nude modelling which Karl-Heinz isn't worried about but he knows his wife is. She is also deeply into a dodgy religion run by a charlatan Baba (Norman Kaye). Well, Cecilia finds out what's going on and unsurprisingly isn't happy but she accepts it only because she can push her husband into spruiking to the gallery owner about getting funding for the dodgy religion. The gallery owner then wants a bigger sculpture and all hell breaks loose.

Not the best movie and plays on a lot of obvious clichés in the art world/psychiatry/fringe religions that it feels a little lazy. As a result, it may be his most accessible movie as a lot happens, is fast-paced (!) and plays like a jaunty comedy while not being all that funny.

A couple of nude scenes from Claudia including faking a nude sculpture scene plus a baffling nude scene from Gosia where she is drugged and ends up on heat and posing for the redesigned sculpture and shows a fair amount of nudity.

Also depending on what version you'd get, there's a nude woman on the video cover for the movie but you don't see the face of the woman so who knows who it is.

Claudia Karvan in Lust and Revenge

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Gosia Dobrowolska in Lust and Revenge

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Victoria Eagger in Lust and Revenge

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Ulli Birve in Lust and Revenge

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There will be one more update from Paul Cox's 2000 movies. I have actually capped all his movies from this period but I'm doing the update to wrap up the full series.

Also of note is that SBS have just announced that they are doing an Erotic Tales type series for next year which will be interesting to see who does them and also what they show. Maybe they'll replay some of the old ones in upscaled HD especially Touch Me.

 

Tags: Gosia Dobrowolska, Sheila Florance, Claudia Karvan, Victoria Eagger, Ulli Birve

 

12/11/2022

The movies of Paul Cox (part 2): Mid to Late 80s

A lot more variety from Cox in this period including a couple of made-for-TV family movies (which I haven't watched) plus a focus on more female-driven stories.

Again the quality of the videos below vary. Being a TV movie, Handle With Care was recorded from it's showing in the 80s and otherwise probably would've been lost. The picture is a bit soft but not that bad. Both Cactus and Golden Braid are off of DVD, both are OK at best but at least it's better that a VHS rip.

Handle With Care (1985)

Basically a docu-drama where we follow the stories of two women, Kate (Anna Maria Monticelli) and Margaret (Monica Maughan) who develop breast cancer and go through two different treatments. Kate goes through a mastectomy while Margaret takes a more radical approach as she wants to keep her breasts. It feels a bit dated, particular Margaret's section but it seems to have been made as a guide for women as to what happens. So that means there aren't the usual flourishes from Cox but he does jam pack the movie with a number of his regulars. It also is a bridge between his previous movie and his next movie as Anna Maria was in My First Wife and Monica is in Cactus.

A little bit of nudity from both leads, mostly related to checking/treatment and all very mild. I keep finding movies where Anna Maria has nudity, now up to five movies including the New Zealand movie Smash Palace, the Australian movies The Dark Room and in photos in The Edge of Power and also the Pierce Brosnan movie Nomads.

Anna Maria Monticelli in Handle With Care

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Monica Maughan in Handle With Care

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Cactus (1986)

Cox imported French actress Isabelle Huppert to play the lead in the drama about a woman who injures her eyes in a car accident and is told she will need to lose one of her eyes but she takes her time to make the decision about whether or not she wants to do it. In the meantime, her vision in her good eye gets worse. She also meets a blind man Robert (Robert Menzies) and they fall in love and this helps with her decision with what to do about her eyesight. Not a lot more than that and maybe less than usual happens in this movie.

Some brief nudity from Isabelle in one scene as she goes to look out the window after having sex.

Isabelle Huppert in Cactus

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Island (1989)

The setting moves away from Melbourne to Greece for this movie where an Australian woman (Eva Sitteová) with a European background comes to Greece to get away from a toxic situation only for her problems to continue as she becomes addicted to heroin and gets in trouble with a persistant French drug dealer. She finds solace with two other women, local Marquise (Irene Papas) and a Sri Lankan woman Sahana (Anoja Weerasinghe) with Greek husband, both of which have there own problems. The movie is a bit hit-and-miss and the drug dealer plot goes on forever just going around in circles until the movie ends without much of a conclusion. Chris Haywood plays a baffling Greek character with speech impediment which seems to only exist because he doesn't speak Greek but it's a strangely interesting character, far more so than the three female characters.

For the first time there is no nudity in a Paul Cox movie.

 

Golden Braid (1990)

I capped this movie 11 years ago so it's been a while since I watched it so I couldn't necessarily tell you what it's about off the top of my head so I'll quote myself from when I posted:

The first collaboration between Cox and Polish-Australian actress Gosia Dobrowolska and she has a fairly decent nude scene here. Gosia would appear in Cox's next 5 movies with further nude scenes in most of them.

Gosia Dobrowolska in Golden Braid

    
    

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Next up is Cox's 90s movies including his introduction to young Claudia Karvan and an Erotic Tale which is the most Paul Cox thing ever. Also included may be his best movie.

 

Tags: Anna Maria Monticelli, Monica Maughan, Isabelle Huppert, Gosia Dobrowolska

 

06/11/2022

The movies of Paul Cox (part 1)

Being meaning to get around to capping the entirety of Australian arthouse autuer Paul Cox's filmography but every time I get around to it, I stall and do something else. He made about 20 movies, 8 of which I've already capped including all of his post-2000 movies but I've capped very few of his 80s and 90s movies. I'm going to do this in chronological order and because there's a bit to go through so I've planned 4-5 updates. At least it's a plan for now...

Most of the Cox's movies I'll be capping from will be off VHS rips mainly because this is the only way a number of them are available. There is a DVD collection but at $35 a movie, there's no way I'm paying that much for a movie I'll only watch once, well not again. The quality of the VHS rips are variable but for the most part they are not bad.

Technically, Cox's first movie is the 75 minute 1976 movie Illuminations, which is near impossible to find and isn't even in the collection of his movies. I've seen clips from the movie from a documentary on his career which had some nudity so maybe one day.

Kostas (1979)

Simple story about a Greek immigrant Kostas (Takis Emmanuel) who has come to live in Australia after coming afoul from local political types. He's a taxi driver and one day after dropping off a friend at the airport, he spies Carol (Wendy Hughes) and instantly falls for her so much so that he jumps the line at the taxi rank to pick her up. After some stalking, he invites her out to a Greek restaurant and she accepts and they fall for one another. But the home land is calling Kostas and he doesn't fit in with her world and gets into fights with her friends. Not much to the movie and is fairly accessible considering what's to come but inevitably it's a modest debut. Also good to know that even an arthouse guy like Cox is not above ending with a mad dash to the airport for a 'happy ending'.

Wendy Hughes plays the female lead and will in numerous upcoming Cox movies (including 2 more in this update). She has a brief nude scene where you barely see her breasts in a very dark scene.

Wendy Hughes in Kostas

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Lonely Hearts (1982)

I first capped Lonely Hearts in 2012, so the below collages and video is from then. It was capped from the Umbrella DVD (a rare example of a pre-2000 Cox movie being available widely on DVD) and is probably his most well-known movie and maybe his best, helped a lot by being co-written by well-regarded New Zealand comedian John Clarke and it shows as this movie is fairly funny, much more so that the usual Paul Cox movie.

Basically, a middle-aged piano tuner (Norman Kaye) puts a 'lonely hearts' ad in the newspaper which is replied to by mousy office worker Patricia (Wendy Hughes) and they develop a relationship around each other's inadequacies. I remember liking it more than I expected but I do remember that I didn't buy Wendy Hughes as the 40 year-old virgin considering she's done numerous movies where she plays character with wanton sexuality including in two movies in this update. Still good though.

There's some brief nudity from Wendy but it's a very dark scene.

Wendy Hughes in Lonely Hearts

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Man of Flowers (1983)

Now we head into the deeper, arthouse type movies. The plot is very minimal in this movie. Basically a middle aged man Charles (Norman Kaye again) is a man of indeterminate wealth who spends his days listening to opera, playing the church organ and talking with a rotating group of men including his postman (Barry Dickins), his scammy psychiatrist (writer Bob Ellis) and a weird man who runs a second hand shop (Patrick Cook). Every Tuesday, he pays a nude model Lisa (Alyson Best) to pose for him although he's not necessarily painting her. When Lisa runs into problems with her junkie artist boyfriend David (Chris Haywood), she ingratiates herself into Charles's live which he doesn't mind, even when she brings her best friend Jane (Sarah Walker) along. Then David gets back his senses and realises that nobody is buying his art and he's lost his 'cash cow' so he forces Charles to buy his paintings and becomes an all-round nuisance. The plot is minimal and scenes go on forever and is mostly forgettable.

A fair bit of nudity in this movie, particularly from Alyson Best who has a fairly extensive record of nudity from movies like Pacific Banana and Harlequin plus a decent nude scene in the late ensemble comedy Relatives. She was also the 'nude woman' in that famous Playboy photo of her with current affairs host/shock jock come politician Derryn Hinch. She quit acting in the mid 80s. Sarah Walker shows full frontal and rear nudity as she gets out of bed. She didn't act again and moved onto being a prominent TV writer/producer. Victoria Eagger shows full frontal nudity and still seems to be acting. Hilary Kelly shows full frontal nudity in flashback scenes shot in Super 8, something Cox would do often in his movies.

Strangely enough, German director Werner Herzog turns up playing Charles' father in the Super 8 flashbacks and gets to drag a kid around by the ear. This must've been soon after he made Fitzcarraldo. Crazy...

Alyson Best in Man of Flowers

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Alyson Best and Sarah Walker in Man of Flowers

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Victoria Eagger in Man of Flowers

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Hilary Kelly in Man of Flowers

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My First Wife (1984)

This 1984 drama brings back Wendy Hughes, this time playing the wife (Helen) of a prominent Classical musician/radio announcer John (John Hargreaves) who reveals the devastating news to her husband that she wants a divorce and that she cheated on him and thinks he smells (ouch!). John does not take this well and goes into a deep depressive spiral which ends up with him in hospital. After leaving the hospital, he starts trying to get back into his ex's lift but only makes things worse including kidnapping their daughter. This one has aged really badly. I get the feeling we are supposed to be sympathetic towards John but he's an arsehole and acts incredibly poorly. The movie ends on a nothing scene and a stalemate between John and Helen. Hargreaves, with full beard which is a rare sight, is good and it's nice to see a bunch of actors who don't usually turn up in Cox's movies fill out the roles for once like Anna-Maria Monticelli who has a fling with John. Not one of Cox's best.

A bit of nudity from Wendy yet again with an early very dark sex scene where we just see her breasts then a couple of consecutive scenes where John and Helen have sex after he leaves hospital. In the first scene we see Wendy's breasts after her bra is taken off. A little later in bed we see her breast then briefly full frontal nudity as she wrestles with John realising that she made a mistake sleeping with him.

Wendy Hughes in My First Wife

10278kb 33sec 768x576 (breasts, sex scene)

29874kb 1min 31sec 768x576 (plenty of cleavage in nightie, lengthy)

45146kb 2min 17sec 768x576 (brief full frontal nudity but mostly breasts, see-through bra, lengthy)

 

There's also a scene shot in Super 8 where a woman's breasts and bush is shown but there's no face so it could be anyone.

 

Well at least that's started now to continue with the rest of the updates. I think I might've gotten in over my head. We're still a little bit away from the Claudia Karvan period of his career.

 

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Tags: Wendy Hughes, Alyson Best, Sarah Walker, Victoria Eagger, Hilary Kelly