Lust and Revenge

Lust and Revenge (1996)

This caustic Australian comedy meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It is also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a sculptor suitable of her father's sponsorship. Normally, George doesn't give a hoot about art, but tax time approaches and he needs a big deduction. Since large bronze statues are 100% deductible, that's what he wants. Georgina comes through with the lesbian sculptor Lily Carmichael who suggests a detailed male nude, sans fig leaf. For her model, Lily chooses unemployed hunk Karl-Heinz Applebaum who at first doesn't realize he is to model totally nude. Fortunately, coquettish Georgina is around to convince him to shed those clothes.

Date of release
1996-05-28
TMDB
3.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Paul Cox

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Lust and Revenge is a 1996 film directed by Paul Cox. It was shot in South Australia.

Production

Cox had intended to make a film Suicide of a Gentleman but Film Victoria decided not to finance the film arguing it had invested $1,224,000 into his last four films and received very little in return. Cox had a crisis of confidence. He then wrote a first draft of Lust and Revenge which was received positively by the head of the South Australian Film Corporation.

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