May 17, 2024 04:08 AM
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...worse.html
EXCERPT: Twenty-two-year-old Damian Hurley wrote and directed what is clearly meant to be a softcore erotic thriller ["Strictly Confidential"] set on a Caribbean island, but it has been described by one critic as a film that spills its secrets with 'the lackadaisical plop of a daytime soap'. Emphasis on the plop.
Among the moodily shot sunsets, the waves crashing on shore and the intrusive music, Damian cast his own mother Elizabeth Hurley in the lead role of bereaved matriarch Lily, who has a lesbian affair with one of her daughter's friends.
Paging Dr Freud! Are you expecting us, Oedipus?
There are several scenes where game old Liz plants her clammy hands on the upper thighs of nightclub singer Natasha (Pear Chiravara) in the manner of a shortsighted labradoodle breeder feeling up a puppy's flanks for hip dysplasia. The saucy couple even kiss, with the terrifying Liz-lips moving in for a smooch like a heat-seeking, peach-glossed sink plunger.
Yet once you set aside the novelty of a nepo son exploiting the fading sex appeal of his 58-year-old mother for commercial and artistic gain, you are left with a lot of poshos twitting about in bikinis and plunge frocks — the cleavage count is at Austin Powers-esque level — spouting inane dialogue.
'Maybe it'll give us some closure. God knows, we can all use some,' says Lily, dripping in the kind of max-coverage midnight make-up usually seen on drag queens. The script is risible; an utterance of text messages between dim teens. 'I'm sorry!' 'For what?' 'Never mind!'
'We shot it in 18 days,' says Damian, by way of excuse. 'It's just a bit of fun.' Then why is it streaming on Prime Video, Fandango at Home, Apple TV and Roku? What other writer/director would be afforded such largesse and exposure on his first ever film? (MORE - missing details)
Strictly Confidential ... https://youtu.be/fZ6G1I3Bc2Y
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fZ6G1I3Bc2Y
EXCERPT: Twenty-two-year-old Damian Hurley wrote and directed what is clearly meant to be a softcore erotic thriller ["Strictly Confidential"] set on a Caribbean island, but it has been described by one critic as a film that spills its secrets with 'the lackadaisical plop of a daytime soap'. Emphasis on the plop.
Among the moodily shot sunsets, the waves crashing on shore and the intrusive music, Damian cast his own mother Elizabeth Hurley in the lead role of bereaved matriarch Lily, who has a lesbian affair with one of her daughter's friends.
Paging Dr Freud! Are you expecting us, Oedipus?
There are several scenes where game old Liz plants her clammy hands on the upper thighs of nightclub singer Natasha (Pear Chiravara) in the manner of a shortsighted labradoodle breeder feeling up a puppy's flanks for hip dysplasia. The saucy couple even kiss, with the terrifying Liz-lips moving in for a smooch like a heat-seeking, peach-glossed sink plunger.
Yet once you set aside the novelty of a nepo son exploiting the fading sex appeal of his 58-year-old mother for commercial and artistic gain, you are left with a lot of poshos twitting about in bikinis and plunge frocks — the cleavage count is at Austin Powers-esque level — spouting inane dialogue.
'Maybe it'll give us some closure. God knows, we can all use some,' says Lily, dripping in the kind of max-coverage midnight make-up usually seen on drag queens. The script is risible; an utterance of text messages between dim teens. 'I'm sorry!' 'For what?' 'Never mind!'
'We shot it in 18 days,' says Damian, by way of excuse. 'It's just a bit of fun.' Then why is it streaming on Prime Video, Fandango at Home, Apple TV and Roku? What other writer/director would be afforded such largesse and exposure on his first ever film? (MORE - missing details)
Strictly Confidential ... https://youtu.be/fZ6G1I3Bc2Y
