Paul Cox – Lust and Revenge (1996)

Once upon a time there was a spoilt, directionless woman called Georgina Oliphant (Claudia Karvan).

To relieve the boredom associated with being an heiress, Georgina has commissioned a sculpture using her father’s money. Foreseeing a healthy tax deduction and a chance to honour his dead wife with a new wing in the state gallery, her father George (Chris Haywood) indulges her. Georgina’s friend, Lily Carmichael (Victoria Eagger), is engaged to create the work.

Lily is a sculptor of international standing but has been shunned in her own country. This commission offers her the prefect opportunity to create a work that will win her local acclaim.

Karl-Heinz (Nicholas Hope) is thrilled to get the job as the artist’s model. His wife, Cecilia (Gosia Dobrowolska), is heavily involved in a New Age religious organisation represented by Baba Charles (Norman Kaye), and as well as working in the cult’s store, is embracing purity of the mind and body. Karl-Heinz isn’t.

All is going well until the end of the financial year looms and George’s tax problems are bigger than originally thought. A man not afraid to make a decision, he decides to enlarge the solution to a two-figure David and Bathsheba level.

A furious Lily frantically tries to find another model, but George has thought of this as well, and is determined it won’t be his young office squeeze Anna (Ulli Birvé). Unfortunately for Cecilia, she’s it! Georgina drops a drug in her cup of tea, and suddenly Cecilia has the hots for posing nude and for her husband.

However when she finally works out what is going on, she makes a few decisions of her own …shaking down George for enough cash to buy a dream cottage in the Adelaide hills hamlet of Hahndorf, only to discover that Karl-Heinz now prefers being tugged off under the restaurant table by Georgina while dining with the rich.

Furious, Cecilia smashes up the statue, forcing Karl-Heinz and Georgina to pose live for a pretentious art critic (Max Gillies), blathering about Lucian Freud and promising front page treatment…

In this story about art, money, sex and revenge, everybody tries to manipulate somebody and everybody gets screwed!

The cover also boasted of special appearances by Robert Menzies, Bryan Dawe, John Hargreaves, Max Gillies, Wendy Hughes and Pamela Rabe.

Lust And Revenge (Paul Cox 1996).mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 29 min
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