Desperate Remedies

Campy New Zealand period melodrama stars Jennifer Ward-Lealand as Dorothea, attempting to wrest her opium addict sister Rose (Kiri Mills) from a former lover (Cliff Curtis). To do so, Dorothea enlists the handsome Lawrence (Kevin Smith) to marry Rose, but he's more interested in Dorothea, and soon a love triangle forms between Lawrence, Dorothea and her lesbian lover Anne (Lisa Chappell). Screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.

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