Clip description
While staying with her well-to-do grandmother, Sybylla (Judy Davis) has a crisis about her looks. Her Aunt Helen (Wendy Hughes) tells her to stop looking in mirrors and tries to make her more feminine. Suitor Frank Hawden (Robert Grubb) offers a gift of flowers.
Curator’s notes
Funny and still topical sequence about self-image and self-confidence, ending with a powerful image showing Sybylla’s ‘wildness of spirit’. Water imagery carries forward throughout the film, representing a kind of feminine energy. Note the almost impressionist look to the scene by the lake.