Alexandra's Project (2003)

Aussie auteur Rolf De Heer explores the claustrophobic contours of domestic dysfunction in his modern chamber drama Alexandra's Project (2003). The film stars Gary Sweet as a middle-aged birthday boy who returns home to discover that his family is gone and that his present––a video tape––is the only thing left of them. Popping the homemade tape into the VCR, Steve (Sweet) sits transfixed as his aggrieved wife, Alexandra (Helen Buday), proceeds to take off her clothes, threaten suicide, and otherwise subject him to a flurry of titillations and tortures. Buday’s character has a knack for changing from tease to terror in seconds, but the scenes in which she seductively bares her breasts for her wayward hubby are peerless.