Julia Fox attending The Art of Elysium’s Paradis 25th anniversary in Cannes
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Category: Beauty
This HQ .gif shows one of the more spectacular nude scenes of all time because the nudity is not incidental to the point. The nudity IS the point.
Samples:
From Johnny Moronic.
Jo Kennedy
Heather Rose
Johnny’s comments and video link:
Continuing Australian Classics with another Rolf de Heer movie.
Dance Me to My Song is a 1998 drama about Julia (Heather Rose) who has fairly severe cerebral palsy but lives in her own home although she needs care which she gets from her harried, abusive at-home nurse Madelaine (Jo Kennedy from Starstruck). Not only is Madelaine unreliable, she impersonates Julia on the phone, brings men to the house to have sex with and also steals from her when she remembers that she’s supposed to be looking after her. One day while Madelaine is out, Julia goes out the front of her house and gets the attention of a man who is walking by, Eddie (John Brumpton) and she gets him to help her despite him not really wanting to be there but he takes a liking to her. Also every once in a while her sister Rix (Rena Owen) comes and visits her and gets Julia out of the house. Eddie keeps coming back to visit Julia and they strike up a friendly bond but Julia wants more and gets Madelaine’s help in initating it. The first attempt ends with Julia chickening out and Madelaine decides to seduce Eddie. Then Julia makes another attempt to go further with Eddie without Madelaine’s help and when she finds them together, she flips out and takes it out on Julia causing incredible tension between the two and an increase in the abuse Madelaine gives towards Julia. Things come to a head when Julia gets Madelaine fired and she doesn’t take it well.
Co-written by Heather (who briefly appears in Bad Boy Bubby as one of the disabled patients Bubby bonds with late in the movie), this is a fairly charming movie that doesn’t down play Heather’s disability for a nice movie and instead becomes a far more rewarding movie. The first 15 minutes are a tough slog, there’s no sugar-coating about Julia’s disability or of the abuse that Madelaine performs on Julia with and without her knowledge. One moment, Madelaine seems nice and gets along with Julia but she can turn just as quickly and Julia tries to get her own back by attempting to ram Madelaine in her wheelchair. Dance Me to My Song is a well-made movie that is uncomproming about disability and the relationships disabled people have. The three lead performances are very good and the relationship between Julia and Eddie is handled quite well without getting overly sexual. There are hard-to-watch scenes in the movie but in fact it’s quite accessible after it’s opening scenes, more than some of de Heer’s other movies.
As always with VHS rips, the quality is down but these videos are pretty good. I know that this movie was released on DVD strangely as a hidden feature on Rolf de Heer 6 movie (7 including this movie) DVD pack but that has been out-of-print for probably 15 years. There’s been no effort to re-release any of de Heer’s movies outside of Bad Boy Bubby getting another version every couple of years. Also interesting to see he has a new movie out, The Survival of Kindness, his first in 10 years which looks about as accessible as his movies usually are.
From Defoe
The funky lighting is explained by the situation – she is illuminated by lightning. (She was caught in a storm while hot-tubbing.)
From Defoe
“JENNIFER HOLLAND’S BOOBS IN BIKINI AND OTHER CELEBRITIES IN A WEEKLY INSTAGRAM/TWITTER ROUNDUP“
This .gif offers a good look at her nipples and buttocks
I’m not sure what’s goin’ on with that left breast. The image is not clear enough to reach any conclusions, or even any speculation.
HQ photo by Fabrizio Ferri
Video here
Original post here
These captures are from Johnny Moronic’s video, which is more than 13 minutes long.
Johnny Moronic’s comments
“Alexandra’s Project is a 2003 domestic thriller set over the course of Steve’s (Gary Sweet) 45th birthday. As he gets ready for work he spends some time with his kids and there’s a little bit of tension between him and his wife Alexandra (Helen Buday) but nothing seems too out of the ordinary. As soon as he leaves for work, Alexandra tells the kids they aren’t going to school and they can help her prepare for their father’s birthday celebrations. Steve has a good day at work and leaves expecting a celebration but he arrives home and finds the house deserted with the electricity cut off except for the television and the VCR. He also sees a video camera set up on a tripod and a birthday gift. He opens it and finds a video with a message to play it. Steve watches and is greeted with a striptease from his wife before she sits down and starts talking about their relationship. Boring!!! So he fast-forwards the video and what he sees next will begin a night of viewing he’ll never forget for a long time. A simple premise from director Rolf de Heer (numerous movies most notably Bad Boy Bubby) but an insanely intriguing one that delivers multiple gut punches as we watch Steve’s life implode on videotape. Both Sweet and Buday are excellent in what is basically a two-hander after the first twenty minutes where it’s just Sweet reacting to what he’s seeing on the tape. Buday spends most of the movie wearing not very much and it must’ve been a hell of an effort to get all the beats right. On rewatch, there’s one or two hints early in the tape as to what’s to come but you’d barely notice them on first watch. The twists are wild and leave Steve who started by thinking he had everything with nothing, his whole life stripped of what he thought he held dear. I hadn’t seen the movie since I capped it back in 2004 (so almost 20 years and my memory is I think I saw in theatres back in the day) but it’s still works after all this time.
One of the reasons I haven’t re-capped it until now is I was kind of hoping it would come out in HD but sadly that doesn’t seem to be happening. de Heer is such an eclectic filmmaker which makes his movies a hard sell for the general public, I mean even his most known movie, Bad Boy Bubby is not an easy watch (the first 30 minutes alone would wipe out most of the audience hence why it only has a decently sized cult following). Alexandra’s Project is a little more accessible than that movie but just never clicked outside of his usual audience. I’ll never understand how things get an audience…
As far as the actors go, Gary Sweet is still one of the most prolific actors in Australia while Helen Buday pretty much quit acting after this although she had a pretty sporadic career before starting with Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, which apart from this movie might be he most recognised role. She was also the female lead in de Heer’s 1991 movie Dingo starring Colin Friels and jazz legend Miles Davis.”
