Feeling Sexy (1999)

Feeling Sexy is a story about Vicki, a passionate and vivacious artist with a voracious appetite for life and love. When she meets and marries medical student Greg, she feels she has found ... See full summary »

Director:

Davida Allen

Writer:

Davida Allen

Stars:

Susie Porter, Tamblyn Lord, Amanda Muggleton

1 win & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Susie Porter	...	Vicki
Tamblyn Lord	...	Greg
Amanda Muggleton	...	Vicki's Mum
Ashleigh Dumbleton	...	Ruby 6 mths
Chloe Dumbleton	...	Ruby 6 mths
Harriet Genest	...	Ruby 2 yrs
Imogen Genest	...	Ruby 2 yrs
Amy Colebourne	...	Ruby 4 yrs
Stephanie Colebourne	...	Ruby 4 yrs
Simone Dumbleton	...	Young Mother in Hospital
Samantha Butler	...	Toby 9 mths
Sarah Butler	...	Toby 9 mths
Matthew Page	...	Toby 2 yrs
Mitchell Page	...	Toby 2 yrs
Lindy Morrison	...	Checkout Chick

Storyline

Feeling Sexy is a story about Vicki, a passionate and vivacious artist with a voracious appetite for life and love. When she meets and marries medical student Greg, she feels she has found true happiness, but two kids and hours, weeks, years of house chores later soon shatter the dream. Vicki wants freedom, release and self-expression, and despite her love for Greg, falls into a lusty affair with art student Hugo. But dishonesty and deceit are not for Vicki. She fatally confesses all to Greg and home life becomes hellish, with Vicki left crushed and demoralized and Greg suspicious and mistrusting. A radical solution is called for and Vicki discovers that the answer may lie within her own creativity and imagination. Vicki is 'married with children' and caught in the universal dilemma - how do you keep the passion alive?

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Plot Keywords:

love | art student | passion | medical student | marital problem | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Binnaburra Film Company

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 December 1999 (Australia)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Feeling good about feeling sexy

Pleasant little piece (50 minutes) about an artist in the Brisbane of the early 1970s trapped by domesticity and her doctor husband's lack of passion who, after a brief affair with an art student, gets to express her own passion through her work.

The director Davida Allen, an established artist but first time director, is strong on visuals and makes good use of close-ups, but also tells the story economically with deft use of cutting. It's a fairly ordinary tale, but told with humour and understanding. Susie Porter as Vickie the artist projects just the right kind of freckled, buxom sensuality for the part and Tamblyn Lord as the husband is suitably buttoned-up, though not unappealing. Some of the best moments are in Vickie's dreams, especially when she fantasises about the hunky tattooed man she sees at the local swimming pool who she imagines decorating and making love to in various wild ways.

The behaviour of someone in Vickie's situation is often portrayed as aberrant or ridiculous, but here she is a normal person with a healthy libido and creative imagination being ground down by babies, nappies, housework and a preoccupied husband. Many in her situation would just walk out, but she sticks with it and is able to feed her creativity back into her ordinary life. A pleasant change of story from the average family court file, but not unheard of, and nicely told here.