Australian auteur Paul Cox's entry into Regina Ziegler's Erotic Tales series is pretty underwhelming. Even its premise isn't handled as definitively as it should have been, ie. The protagonist is an artist's model played by Claudia Karvan who sojourns from her unsatisfying relationship for a weekend away and finds an awakening in her travel partner - and yet the movie makes clear that her partner at home is not inattentive or uninterested in her. She claims he told her she doesn't have the body to model, and yet when we meet him he can't keep his hands off the same body.
Therefore her motivations don't really make sense.
The other character is also not wanting for male attention, and does not appear unsatisfied when she gets it. Neither of the characters are hurting for erotic satisfaction, so why did they take their trip together?
When the climax (ahem) happens, it's hard to believe it. It gives us a good look at the beautiful Claudia Karvan's body, but we don't see too much of her pleasure.
It seems like a no-brainer that Karvan should have been dissatisfied or sexually repressed, and this climactic scene should have shown her really getting into it.
Neither is true, therefore both the story and its intended effects are neutered.
