Movies
May, 1994
The gist of Sirens (Miramax), made in Australia, is a conflict between laced-up propriety and sexual liberation. Using the life of an actual artist to root his fiction in fact, writer-director John Duigan sets his story in the early 1900s when Hugh Grant as Tony, a young Anglican churchman, travels with his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) to visit Norman Lindsay, a painter (played roguishly by Sam Neill). The churchman's mission is to persuade the artist to withdraw a controversial etching called The Cru...