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Desperate Remedies

1994, Movie, R, 93 mins

Desperate Remedies: Review

DESPERATE REMEDIES is a furious, deliberately demented bodice-ripper from New Zealand that seems conceived exclusively for high-camp or low-character crowds. "At a distant point of empire, in a town called Hope, a ship docks bearing immigrants," read the opening titles; what follows, to the turgid strains of Berlioz, Verdi, and Strauss, is a breathless romp through all manner of boy-girl, girl-girl, and girl-boy-girl sexcapades. Dorothea Brook (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is t... read more leave a comment