Quotes compiled by Lyn McCarthy of Maverick Films. The Maverick Films website is one of the grooviest, newsiest sites around. Check it out!
"GLOWS WITH EROTICISM! Porter is SENSATIONALLY GOOD! A STRIKING DEBUT from award-winning Aussie artist Davida Allen. FRESH AND VITAL, refreshing in it's CANDOUR and HUMOUR. Visually MOST IMPRESSIVE, with Allen's background as a painter obvious in every frame."
David Stratton, Variety
"***** (Five stars) Artist Davida Allen's debut movie is a small joy of a film LIKE NOTHING YOU'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE: it's a painting that comes to life, a frozen moment which bursts into flames. SERIOUSLY FUNNY AND HILARIOUSLY SERIOUS, this is independent cinema at its best. EVERY FRAME IS WORTH AT LEAST 10 OF ALL THE OTHER AUSTRALIAN MOVIES OF 1999 and Susie Porter is the sexiest thing on two legs in the southern hemisphere."
The Eye, 16-29 December, 1999
"Susie Porter is PERFECTLY CAST as a young mother fighting the sexual and emotional frustrations imposed by domestic isolation. How many women have experienced this - and how many times has it been expressed in a feature film, let alone one as FUNNY as this? "
Lynden Barber, The Australian
"DEFIANTLY SEXUAL! The film is like an artwork, acutely conscious of colour, space and light."
Lisa Romano, HQ Magazine
"AN INTIMATE AND WELL-CRAFTED GEM. Davida Allen creates beauty out of the mundane reclaiming ordinary stories as significant and female desire as both potentially obliterating and a positive force. She captures an essence of relationships that Kubrick manages to obscure."
Kirsten Krauth, Real Time
"INTENSE AND PLEASURE-FILLED. Resonates with a wide audience. FUNNY. CRUSHINGLY REAL AND HILARIOUSLY COMIC. THIS IS VISUAL POETRY. A distinctive Australian tale told with HEART and realised with colour and light and PASSION."
Stephen Jenner, If Magazine
"WHAT A PLEASURE! Davida Allen has delivered us a saviour just in time for Christmas, and it's a fine thing to see a real woman on screen. REAL AND REFRESHING, this is a very funny musing on womanhood and marriage. RECOMMENDED."
Bec Smith, If Magazine
"FEELING SEXY LEFT ME FEELING SATISFIED. A great little movie with more character insight than many an epic."
Pat Conlan, Move Trader
"Porter is excellent, Lord is convincing and Jack Thompson pops up in an all-too-brief cameo. IT'S A FINE FIRST FILM, CAREFULLY CRAFTED AND WINNINGLY PLAYED."
Darren Arnold, Filmink
"The VIVID SENSUALITY is splashed across the screen - Allen and her spot on actors not only take the pulse of an everyday marriage, but enrich it with INSIGHT, HUMOUR and A QUIRKY GLOSS OF OPTIMISM AND GOODWILL. B+"
Andiee Paviour, Who Weekly
"Make a point of seeing artist Davida Allen's WONDERFULLY EROTIC Feeling Sexy!"
Peter Thompson, TCN 9 Sunday Show
"Davida Allen has the wonderful ability of combining humour, both visual and verbal, and pain in her characters. She is well served by Susie Porter who has a natural insouciance, combined with guts and talent. 4 stars"
Margaret Pomeranz, SBS The Movie Show
"A FASCINATING EXPERIENCE. FRESH AND ORIGINAL Susie Porter is AMAZING as a wonderful, life-loving character."
David Stratton, SBS The Movie Show
"DELIGHTFUL! FUNNY, SAD, EROTIC AND ALARMING! Susie Porter is warm and sexy in just the right way. THIS FILM IS NOT A MINUTE TOO LONG OR TOO SHORT, AND I LOVED IT!"
Evan Williams, The Australian
"First time writer/director, Davida Allen, has done A FINE JOB and the two principal actors are EXCELLENT. I LOVED THIS FILM!"
Karl-Peter Gottschalk, SEMPERMAC
Feeling Sexy tells us more about relationships in 50 minutes than Eyes Wide Shut does in an excruciating three hours."
Andrew Mercado, Channel V
"A STRONG FILM with a local angle that had people that had people talking afterwards. And a lot of the talk was about how much HEART the film has and how much SALTY SENSUALITY Porter brings to the part. Made for a fraction of the budget, FEELING SEXY, like Eyes Wide Shut, is DRIPPING WITH SEX."
Garry Maddox, The Sydney Morning Herald
"A DELICIOUS MARITAL ITCH COMEDY!"
Ruth Hessey, Sydney Morning Herald (Metro)
"A BLAST OF FRESH TROPICAL AIR - A RIPE, FLESHY AND PUNGENT DEBUT FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO WANT WHAT SHE WANTS.
At just 50 minutes it's also proof that size doesn't matter: there is more truth about women's lives, having kids and the dynamics of love than many longer films manage, especially local ones. REFRESHING, VERY FUNNY. Susie Porter wears this role like a glove. She has a kind of larrikin femininity all freckles and red hair and hungry lips with which to suck life's fruit."
Paul Byrnes, The Sydney Morning Herald
"**** (Four Stars - An Affair to Remember) FINALLY, AN AUSTRALIAN FILM THAT ISN'T AFRAID OF SEX! Packs more into 50 minutes than most films twice its length. RICH, ELOQUENT, EXTRAORDINARY. Feeling Sexy is every woman's experience in all its vivid immediacy. Susie Porter is SENSATIONAL in a role that allows her to shine. Feeling Sexy reinvents the romantic comedy. FRESH, ORIGINAL AND LAUGH-OR-YOU'LL-CRY FUNNY."
Vicki Roach, The Daily Telegraph
"**** (Four Stars). DAZZLING! So vividly illustrated, so magnificently and boldly performed that IT IS IRRESISTIBLE! This wonderfully whimsical piece does more than enough to bring great cheer to its audience - and a lot of situations leap at you from the screen in recognition. Porter delivers a powerhouse performance."
Paul Le Petit, Sunday Telegraph
"FUNNY, POIGNANT, EROTIC and SCINTILLATING DRAMA. Porter's DAZZLING PERFORMANCE and its emotive range, make this film SUCH A REWARDING EXPERIENCE. A TRULY FASCINATING FILM WHICH IS BOTH HAUNTINGLY TRUTHFUL YET STRANGELY SURREAL. It's a mix that works, and the result is PURE CINEMA."
Paul Fischer, Drum Media
"I think it's THE BEST FILM YET to come out of Queensland."
Des Partridge,The Courier Mail.
"**** (4 stars) FUNNY, SEXY, ARRESTING, HIGHLY INVENTIVE PLENTY OF LAUGHTER. ABOVE ALL, FEELING SEXY IS A VERY ROMANTIC FILM. It leaves you with much more than many films with significantly longer running times."
Richard Kuipers, Brisbane News
"LOVE TRIUMPHS IN A GREAT LITTLE MOVIE! Proving that good things come in small packages. A POWERHOUSE MOVIE - the strength of Davida Allen's script and directing as well as a stellar performance by lead actress Susie Porter."
Mark Bode, The Sunday Times
"FRESH CLEVER AND WITTY. Most appealing in this charming little film is Susie Porter who gives Vicki a sexy energy and vivacity. Allen's film debut is impressive."
Ron Banks, West Australian
"Davida Allen's film debut, Feeling Sexy, throws open new possibilities. AN IMPRESSIVE AND CAPTIVATING WORK, it bridges the local spheres of cinema and art as no movie has quite done before. Its immediacy and force derive essentially from SUSIE PORTER'S SPLENDID PERFORMANCE. On screen for virtually every moment, she commands the frame with her wit, sassiness and spirit. A RICH, FULL AND SATISFYING FILM."
Adrian Martin, The Age
"***1/2 (3.5 stars) VERY FUNNY & PLENTY OF GOOD, HONEST HUMOUR."
Veronica Gleeson, Inside Melbourne
