An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality. Although this raises certain much-discussed questions about the nature of representation, and about the construction of narrative and daydreams in films, 'Phoelix' tends to treat these as just pretty and pertinent issues, opting instead for a mannered concentration on detail.

Cast

Cosey Fanni Tutti

Stripper

Bob Hornery

Queen Nefertiti

Jonathan Hyde

Napier

Ken Kitson

Cerith Wyn Evans

Allan Corduner

Imogen Claire

Jeff Rawle

Alan Devlin

Tilly Vosburgh

Martin Glade

Ken Campbell