TWO NUDES BATHING European Union Films From Cannes

A lavish fantasy on the origins of the anonymous painting which hangs in the Louvre. In late
16th Century France a young D?tch portrait painter is commissioned by a count who is determined
to have a prim and proper likeness of his two teenage girls before they are exposed to the
lustful ways of the world . Sheltered from the outside world, the girls coax the painter to describe
the love making process. He becomes erotically obsessed with them, observing them in the bath
playfully acting out what he has taught them. “The script is witty and the cast impeccable ..
Boorman has assembled a handsome production, with exquisite camerawork and design.” David
Stratton, Variety Plays before Mairi Mohr (see entry under British Showcase).